New NT Service HOWTO : Simplest One Yet
I spent most of my Sunday doing this. I know of the javants.exe in the /contrib but that infernal thing has almost no documentation (some separate hyperlink) and bombs mysteriously.
Instead, I got fed up and tried alternatives. Several in the FAQ for jboss but all 'convoluted' for just a simple developer like me who doesn't have a C++ compiler. Then I found this : JSL by Michael R
http://www.roeschter.com/index.html
I got it working in 1 hrs after tinkering only. It doesn't address jboss specifically but it was so simple, I easily adapted. My jsl.ini file is reproduced below. It isn't production quality but if u're using jboss, u're got enough IQ for it..;)
[service]
appname = jboss
servicename = jboss
displayname = jboss
;port used to communicate stop command to JVM
;Must be unique for each JSL instance installed
;Used 8466 for jboss
stopport = 8466
;service dependencies can be added
;as a comma separated string "dep1,dep2"
;dependencies=TinyHttp
;service start type
;auto demand disabled
;default is auto
starttype=auto
;load ordering group
loadordergroup=someorder
;account under which service runs
;default is system
;account=.\administrator
;password for above account
;system need not provide a password
;password=somewpd
;Allocate a console and register a console event handler to catch shutdown events.
;Default is true; options are FALSE TRUE false true YES NO yes no
;This option has two effects:
;1. If active it catches the logoff events and prevents the service from erroneously stopping in this case.
;2. It creates a console window if interaction with the desktop is allowd.
;Effect 1 can be achieved in Java 1.3.1 and higher by using the -Xrs option.
;Effect 2 may or may not be desired.
useconsolehandler=false
;Call . through JNI so stop the JVM.
;This can be used an alternative to the ServiceStopper
;When all three parameters are defined the JSL will try to use JNI to stop the service.
;If not it will use a tcp/ip connection to the stopport.
;The simplest way to use this functionality is to use the Systen.exit() call as specified below.
;Nevertheless you can call any static method in your code.
;The method called is expected to terminate the JVM one way or the other. It can directly
;call System.exit() or make another Thread do it make the main method return.
;The method can return imediately if desired. If the JVM doesn't stop another attempt can be made to
;stop the service at a later time.
stopclass=java/lang/System
stopmethod=exit
;Take care to specify the right signature for your method. void System.exit( int code ) has
;the sifnature specified below. void myMethod() has the signature ()V. Please refer to the
;JNI documentation for details.
stopsignature=(I)V
;Value of the PATH environement variable being set by the service.
;PATH will remain unchanged if this is empty.
;path=c:\util
;Redirect stdout and stderr to the specified files
;Leave empty for no redirection
;stdout=e:\stdout.log
;stderr=e:\stderr.log
;Behaviour in case of JVM exiting with an error
;Define whether an execption in the main method should be considered an error
;Use this exit code in case of an exception.
;exceptionerrorcode=0
;Desired behaviour for a non zero exit code (including exceptions as specified above)
;Options:
;ignore terminate without error (default)
;returncode exit with error code reported by the JVM to to the service manager
;fatal don't report regular service stop to service manager making it believe
;a fatal error had occured in the service (this is sometimes desirable if fatal error
;recovery mechanisms are in place)
;onexiterror=fatal
;Use this executable for registering the service.
;Default is the executable used for installation
;modulepath=e:\java\test\jsl_0_9_9a\release\jsl.exe
[java]
;Path to the java runtime used
;If this option is not used the default from the registry will be used
;jrepath=E:\java\jdk13
;working directory
wrkdir=D:\JBoss-2.4.5_Tomcat-4.0.3\jboss\bin
;the number of paramters passed to the java application
;parameters must be numbered param00, param01 ...
params = 6
param00 = -Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.crimson.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
param01 = -Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.crimson.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
param02 = -cp
param03 = D:\JBoss-2.4.5_Tomcat-4.0.3\jboss\bin;D:\jdk\jdk1.3.1_03\lib\tools.jar;run.jar;D:\JBoss-2.4.5_Tomcat-4.0.3\jboss\lib\crimson.jar
param04 = org.jboss.Main
param05 = catalina