Anyone had any luck using WiX to install Apache Tomcat as a service? Just wondering because I'm having a fun time banging my head against this.
Here's some background: Tomcat uses the Jakarta Commons procrun daemon to interface with the Windows services mechanism. Unfortunately, it looks like procrun does all of the registry work on its own when you use the supported installation instructions. This means (and my earlier installer does this) that to install Tomcat as a custom action I have to use a Custom Action that runs the procrun daemon in install mode to get it all configured and happy, and another to remove it on uninstall. That was ok until I came back for a second pass through my code to tighten things up. For some reason, my Custom Action to stop Tomcat before using a Custom Action to uninstall it wasn't getting sequenced properly. I was tempted to ask you all about it then, but I was fairly sure the answer would be "Why are you using a Custom Action to install and start a service, you twit?" So I've been trying to use the ServiceInstall element to install procrun as a service. It gets installed ok, but there's some custom configuration that it does over and above what the Windows Service facilities provide. "Well and good", I thought, "I can get away with firing off a custom action for that." Except that procrun is doing some magic in its install step that I haven't got a handle on yet that allows the configuration CA to succeed. Has anyone on the list tried to do this before, and if so, do you have any tips I could use? I'll probably have to brute-force it at some point unless some miracle happens and I figure it out on my own... -- -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite D103 Birmingham, AL 35203 Phone +1-205-397-3141 ext. 3149 Fax +1-205-397-3142 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.verarisoft.com/ The information contained in this communication may be confidential and is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this communication is not the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you are not a named recipient or received this communication by mistake, please notify the sender and delete the communication and all copies of it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
