[jira] [Created] (APLO-358) Exit on error during startup

["Adam Hooper (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Adam Hooper created APLO-358:
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             Summary: Exit on error during startup
                 Key: APLO-358
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APLO-358
             Project: ActiveMQ Apollo
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: apollo-broker, apollo-cli, apollo-util
    Affects Versions: 1.6
         Environment: Ubuntu 14.04
            Reporter: Adam Hooper


Our download-and-run program is built of multiple concurrent processes; one of these is Apollo. We have a parent Java process that invokes Apollo.

Our users won't understand Apollo's log messages. If Apollo encounters an error during startup (such as "java.net.BindException: Address already in use" or "java.io.IOException: File './data/lock' could not be locked."), we can assume it isn't going to start up.

We would love Apollo to exit with a non-zero status code in that case, so we can detect the error and report it to the user.

Is this reasonable?

I can think of two ways of attacking this issue that would work well for us:

1) Exit with non-zero status code when any component encounters an error during startup; OR
2) Exit with a non-zero status code when any component encounters an error and a special command-line flag has been set.



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