JBoss AS 7 as a Windows Service

[ortizfabio]

Does anybody knows if the jbosssvc (jbossweb.x64.exe) works with the new JBoss 7.0? and if so how I should go about configuring it. Has anybody actually done this? The reason I am asking is because AS 7.0 is started from the standalone.bat or domain.bat. They are a little different than previous versions.

Thanks,

Fabio

[gerry.matte]

I attempted to setup a JBoss AS 7 windows service using the windows service wrapper included at http://www.jboss.org/jbossweb/downloads/jboss-native-2-0-9.html

Creating the service seemed to be fairly easy (changes were made to invoke standalone.xml) and the resulting service starts without any errors.

However, when I stop the service it shuts down windows 7.  Not good.

When I posted this issue at https://community.jboss.org/message/617264#617264

Jean-Frederic Clere responded:

I will make a try: I am preparing a new version of native (should be later this week).

(See the July 24 postings)

[ortizfabio]

Gerry,

I actually use the 2-0-8 native and I got the service installed and running. However I had to made changes to the batch file. I changed the name of the executable to the 64bit version and the name of the script to point to the standalone.bat file. This seems to work so far.

Thanks,

Fabio

[gerry.matte]

Could you post your service.bat file ?

I tried to modify mine but the result was unsuccessful.

Thanks Fabio.

[ortizfabio]

I am not able to upload a file but I can upload an image. Here is a picture of the changes I made to service.bat versus the original. If you can tell me how to upload the file then I can try that.

Thanks,

[gerry.matte]

To attach a file, start a Reply then in the upper right corner of the reply window click on "Advanced Editor".  Near the bottom left of that window is a button "Choose File" button for file attachments below your text message.

I'll attach my service.bat to ensutre it works ok.

[gerry.matte]

BTW, there's also a discussion at http://community.jboss.org/message/618530 about using a generic java service wrapper instead of the tomcat native wrapper.  I've used that approach before - it's very configurable but can be complex to set up.  They almost having it working.

[ortizfabio]

The problem might be that the standalone.conf.bat or domanin.conf.bat are not being source in from the corrensponding batch file. It was working because I had the definitions added to my environment like JAVA_HOME. But now I installed in another server and they are not being seeing.

Fabio

[ortizfabio]

The biggest problem is that every time I shutdown the service it shutdowns the SERVER. Then I have to contact the admins to restart which are not really happy. Even if I do it form the command line with "net stop servicename" it brings down the server.

Fabio

[gerry.matte]

That's exactly the problem I was having.  Not an acceptable situation - expescially for servers.

Keep an eye on https://community.jboss.org/message/617264 for Jean-Frederic's response.

[sebastian.koske]

Hi,

i uncommented the line in service.bat / :cmdStop (line 84)

REM call shutdown -S < .s.lock >> shutdown.log 2>&1

this solved it for me.

[nickarls]

Do you mind sharing the configuration files?

[sebastian.koske]

Hi sure,

I downloaded the bundle from

http://www.jboss.org/jbossweb/downloads/jboss-native-2-0-9.html

and applied some minor modifications to the service.bat (attached)

[nickarls]

Excellent, it works for me!

(Windows 7 users should make sure their cmd is run in administrator mode if you want to do a service install)

[ortizfabio]

Removing the shutdown statements fixes the problem. I am not even sure why they were there in the first place. It has nothing to do with the "Jboss windows service" code.

Thanks,