[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (GERONIMO-4394) Run Geronimo as a Windows service out of box

["Jack Cai (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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caijunj edited comment on GERONIMO-4394 at 12/17/08 2:01 AM:
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Thanks Jarek for your advice! Now I've come out with a more compact version. I can successfully install the car to a running server to add those new commands into its bin dir. The only myth left is that after installation, the car in the server's repo is not a car archive, but extracted there.

I've created a patch for the 2.1.x branch. It can be easily applied to 2.2 branch if all occurances of "2.1.4-SNAPSHOT" are replaced with "2.2-SNAPSHOT". The patch does not include the 2 binary exe files though. I'm not sure about the convention of how to add them (in the patch or separately?), so I just attach them separately here. They should both be put into the plugins/osservice/geronimo-procrun/src/main/resources/bin/ dir.

      was (Author: caijunj):
    Thanks Jarek for your advice! Now I've come out with a more impact version. I can successfully install the car to a running server to add those new commands into its bin dir. The only myth left is that after installation, the car in the server's repo is not a car archive, but extracted there.

I've created a patch for the 2.1.x branch. It can be easily applied to 2.2 branch if all occurances of "2.1.4-SNAPSHOT" are replaced with "2.2-SNAPSHOT". The patch does not include the 2 binary exe files though. I'm not sure about the convention of how to add them (in the patch or separately?), so I just attach them separately here. They should both be put into the plugins/osservice/geronimo-procrun/src/main/resources/bin/ dir.
  
> Run Geronimo as a Windows service out of box
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: GERONIMO-4394
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4394
>             Project: Geronimo
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>          Components: commands
>         Environment: Windows platforms
>            Reporter: Jack Cai
>            Assignee: Jack Cai
>             Fix For: 2.2
>
>         Attachments: GERONIMO-4394_Jack.patch, geronimosrv.exe, geronimosrvw.exe, osservice.zip
>
>
> Although there is already an option provided by the Java Service Wrapper, some users are more interested in seeing something similar to what is provided by Tomcat. Provided that we can easily take the technology from Tomcat (http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html), I'm keen to implement this same thing for Geronimo. The advantage of using Apache Commons procrun is that -
>  1. Out-of-box experience, no need to download and install a third party component;
>  2. Tray icon that further improves usability.
> Eventually we would think to provide this "run as a service" capability for Linux/Unix platforms, but Windows would be a good start. 

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