I've recently had to wade through the setup of JBoss as a Windows service, and thought it would be useful if we (that is, you and me) post up the javaservice script files for other newbie?s to try, learn and understand.

To get things kicked off, if you intend to run ANY java application as a service, I woul recommend using javaservice (I did try the java service wrapper, but eventually gave up):

Information: http://www.multiplan.co.uk/software/javaservice/index.html
Download: http://forge.objectweb.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=137
Installation: http://www.multiplan.co.uk/software/javaservice/docs/index.html

To determine which jvm DLL to use, see the following post:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=33&threadID=527159.

And now, here's the installation script I used (note that I rename the javaservice executable to JBossService.exe):

JBossService.exe -install JBoss 
%JAVA_HOME%\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll 
-Dprogram.name=run.bat 
-Xms128m 
-Xmx512m 
-Djava.endorsed.dirs=%JBOSS_HOME%\lib\endorsed 
-Djava.class.path="%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar;%JBOSS_HOME%\bin\run.jar" 
-start org.jboss.Main 
-stop org.jboss.Main 
-method systemExit 
-out %JBOSS_HOME%\log\stdout.log 
-err %JBOSS_HOME%\log\stderr.log

-make sure that the %JBOSS_HOME%\log directory exists.

The script above should work on any machine with JBoss installed, as long as you have JBOSS_HOME and JAVA_HOME setup correctly.

 

 

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Hello colr,
from last 2 days i a mtrying to setup jboss as a window service ...
I am through with every thing u have mentioned but there is some problem ...
I am trying to add bind.address=0.0.0.0 so thta i can access this server from other machine.
I tried every thing but nothing happened ....
do u have any solution for this..
Or anyone else who has faced the same problem ...

Cheers,
Keshav

 

 

hi,
I am tried to install jboss as a service on a 64 bit windows machine.
When I execute the commands that posted here i get the message jboss service installed successfully,
but when i tried to start it gave me message
"*The JBossAll Service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the performance Logs and Alerts service."*

Please help me to get through this.
Thanks,

 

 

If you want to run JavaService on a 64-bit machine - you will need to use the 64-bit compatible version. The only one I know of so far is: JavaService-2.0.7.64.zip
You can downloaded it from: http://forge.objectweb.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=137
Extract JavaService.exe from there. Rename it to JbossService.exe and you are good to go.