Richard S. Hall: > Vegar Westerlund wrote: >> Richard S. Hall: >>> Felix itself doesn't make any attempt to use stdin, but the simple >>> launcher does (i.e., it assumes it can ask for a profile if one doesn't >>> exist and is configured to autoload the shell.tui), but it is >>> configurable to avoid doing these things. >> >> «the simple laucher does...»? Is felix normally run from another >> application (like I guess it is when running Eclipse)? I would like to >> run Felix on a server to be a backend for business logic. And then I >> only want to start the Felix server. > > Well, we didn't expect there to be a single launcher that worked for > everyone, so we figured people might create their own launchers or embed > Felix into their own applications, see:
Ahh, ok. Helps to have some context information. The little I know about Felix (first heard about it a little under a month ago so ...) I thought running it as a server was the most common use-case. >>> How would you like it to be cleaner? Do you mean having it set up as a >>> daemon automatically? >> >> Most programs designed to run as a daemon will ensure that stdout and >> stderr are redirected to syslog (or a logfile) and stdout are closed >> before forking a process to run in the background. And possibly a debug >> mode where the console are kept as output. Thats what I was expecting, >> but didn't find. > > Well, for the most part, Felix uses the log service if a bundle is > installed that provides one, then you can control where the log messages > go via which log service you install. Yeah, I know. That's not a problem. I was just wondering. Best practices and so on... >>> We have some work started on an installer that will automatically >>> install Felix as a daemon, but unfortunately that has stalled. >> >> Yeah, I read about something in the archive from November 07 about using >> Java wrapper. I tried it out and it seems to work on our Linux server. > > Cool. Well, it would be nice if we could find a volunteer to polish this > up. I created an issue for it on our "contributing" page: > > http://cwiki.apache.org/FELIX/contributing.html I've never used wrapper before, but it work almost out of the box... Thanks for really fast response. Always nice to meet an active communitiy. -- Vegar Westerlund --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
