[jira] [Created] (DAEMON-309) Documentation for start method in JVM mode is conflicting

["Joachim Sauer (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Joachim Sauer created DAEMON-309:
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             Summary: Documentation for start method in JVM mode is conflicting
                 Key: DAEMON-309
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAEMON-309
             Project: Commons Daemon
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Procrun
            Reporter: Joachim Sauer
            Priority: Minor


The documentation for how the start method should act in JVM mode is conflicting (http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/procrun.html).

1. In the documentation of the StartMethod parameter there's this text:
{quote}
Note: in jvm mode, the start method should not return until the stop method has been called.
{quote}

2. The second-to-last sentence in the section "Using Procrun in jvm mode" reads:
{quote}
Note that the method handling service start should create and start a separate thread to carry out the processing, and then return.
{quote}

According to my reading those two sentences say pretty much the opposite of each other and observation shows that #1 is the correct one (i.e. the service is assumed to have stopped when the start method returns).

Generally speaking, JVM mode is pretty under-documented (in my opinion). That can easily be verified by the fact that very popular documentation exists outside the procrun/commons daemon project, as a blog post: http://joerglenhard.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/build-windows-service-from-java-application-with-procrun/

A simple end-to-end example showing a similar setup as that blog post would be good.



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