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The first method is to use the
WrapperSimpleApp helper class to
launch the application. This is by far the simplest way to integrate
with the Wrapper, and where possible, it is highly recommended. There
are some things to be aware of when using this method however. When
the Wrapper shuts down the JVM, there is no direct call to an
application requesting that it shutdown cleanly. Rather, the Wrapper
will exit the JVM by calling System.exit()
from within the JVM. If the application has registered its own
shutdown hook,
it will be invoked, giving the application a chance to shutdown
cleanly. If on the other hand, a shutdown hook is not registered, then
the application will suddenly exit. Both cases, with and without a
shutdown hook, provide the exact same behavior as if the application
was running without the Wrapper and a user pressed CTRL-C in the console.
When integrating with the WrapperSimpleApp
helper class, the WrapperSimpleApp
class replaces an application's main class. This gives the
WrapperSimpleApp class a chance to
immediately initialize the WrapperManager
and register the JVM with the Wrapper. The
WrapperSimpleApp class then manages all
interaction with the Wrapper as well as the life-cycle of an application.
When the Wrapper sends a start message to the JVM via the
WrapperManager, the main method of
the application's actual main class is called.
The WrapperSimpleApp helper class
is told how to launch the application by passing the application's
main class name, followed by any additional application parameters
to the main method of the WrapperSimpleApp.
The following section will walk you through a detailed explanation of
how to configure JBoss to
run within the Wrapper. Most other applications can be integrated by
following the same steps.
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This tutorial will start with a clean install of
JBoss. We used version
3.0.4 so the exact steps may be slightly different depending
on the exact version installed. JBoss was installed in the root
directory, D:\, resulting in a
JBoss Home directory of D:\jboss-3.0.4.
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There are four files which are required to be able to use the
Wrapper. We will also copy over three additional batch files
which can be used to launch JBoss as well as install and
uninstall it as an NT Service.
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First we will copy the following files into the JBoss
bin directory:
{WRAPPER_HOME}\bin\Wrapper.exe
{WRAPPER_HOME}\src\bin\App.bat.in
{WRAPPER_HOME}\src\bin\InstallApp-NT.bat.in
{WRAPPER_HOME}\src\bin\UninstallApp-NT.bat.in
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Rename the three batch files as follows.
Be sure to remove the .in
extensions so that the files all end in
.bat. Depending on how
your file explorer is configured, you may not be able to see
the extensions.
{JBOSS_HOME}\bin\JBoss.bat
{JBOSS_HOME}\bin\InstallJBoss-NT.bat
{JBOSS_HOME}\bin\UninstallJBoss-NT.bat
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The Wrapper.exe file is the
actual Wrapper executable. The three batch files are used to
run JBoss in a console, and to install and remove it as an NT
Service. These scripts should not require any modification.
They do assume that the
wrapper.conf file will be
located within a conf
directory one level up,
../conf/wrapper.conf. If
you wish to locate this file someplace else, then the three
batch files will require that small modification.
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Copy the following two files into the JBoss lib directory:
{WRAPPER_HOME}\lib\Wrapper.DLL
{WRAPPER_HOME}\lib\wrapper.jar
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The Wrapper.DLL file is a
native library required by the portion of the Wrapper which
runs within the JVM. The wrapper.jar
file contains all of the Wrapper classes.
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The Wrapper requires a configuration file. The standard
location for this file is in a conf directory in the
application's home directory. JBoss does not have such
a directory by default, so we will need to create one.
Please do so and copy the template
wrapper.conf file to
that location:
{WRAPPER_HOME}\src\conf\wrapper.conf.in
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Be sure to remove the .in
extension so that the file is named
wrapper.conf. Depending
on how your file explorer is configured, you may not be able
to see the extension. You should now have:
{JBOSS_HOME}\conf\wrapper.conf
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If you wish to relocate the configuration file, you are free
to do so. You will need to modify the batch scripts copied
into the bin directory above,
to reflect the new location.
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The default wrapper.conf file
will place a wrapper.log file
in a logs directory under the
application home directory. JBoss does not have such a directory
by default, so we will need to create one. Please do so. You
should now have the following directory:
If you wish to place the log file in another location, you will
need to edit the wrapper.conf
file and modify the wrapper.logfile
property to reflect the new location.
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Before the Wrapper can be configured to launch an Application,
you will need to know the full Java command which is normally
used.
Most applications make use of a batch file to build up the actual
command line. These batch files tend to get quite unwieldy and
in fact, the ability to avoid having to work with them is one of
the benefits of working with the Wrapper.
JBoss is launched by using a batch file called
run.bat. It is
launched by first changing the current directory to the
bin directory and then
run from there. If you open
run.bat into an editor, you
will notice the following line towards the end of the file:
%JAVA% %JAVA_OPTS% -classpath "%JBOSS_CLASSPATH%" org.jboss.Main %ARGS%
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The majority of the batch file has the task of collecting system
specific information and storing that information into environment
variables. The line above then expands all of the collected
information into the final Java command which launches the
application. From looking at the source of the batch file,
we hope you appreciate the complexity and the desire to have to
avoid completely writing such scripts yourself.
In order to configure the Wrapper, all that is really needed is
the final expanded command line. Rather than reading through the
entire script and attempting to understand it, we will use a
simple trick to display the final command line in the console.
Edit the batch file by inserting "ECHO " at the beginning of the
above line. After doing so, you should have:
ECHO %JAVA% %JAVA_OPTS% -classpath "%JBOSS_CLASSPATH%" org.jboss.Main %ARGS%
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If you now rerun the script, you will see something like the
following in the console (Your output will all be on one line):
D:\Sun\j2sdk1.4.0_03\bin\java -Dprogram.name=run.bat
-classpath ";D:\Sun\j2sdk1.4.0_03\lib\tools.jar;D:\jboss-3.0.4\bin\run.jar" org.jboss.Main
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In order to be able to use this command with the Wrapper, we need
to break up its components. Open the
wrapper.conf file into an editor
and make the changes below.
NOTE
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Where properties are mentioned below, links are provided to their
descriptions. Please take the time to review the descriptions of
any properties which are modified. In many cases, there are
further details on their usage which are not mentioned here.
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First is to extract the java executable and assign it to the
wrapper.java.command
property:
wrapper.java.command=D:\Sun\j2sdk1.4.0_03\bin\java
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Most applications provide a number of parameters to the Java
executable when it is launched. The Wrapper provides special
properties for configuring things like memory, as well as
class and library paths. These will be covered below, however
any other settings are configured using the
wrapper.java.additional.<n>
series of properties.
The JBoss command line only has one such property. In this
case, we have changed the name of the script used to launch
JBoss from run.bat, but
for consistency we will leave it as is.:
wrapper.java.additional.1=-Dprogram.name=run.bat
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Notice that the full property was copied directly from the
command line without any modifications. See the property
documentation for details on how to handle properties
containing spaces.
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Next, comes the classpath, which is configured using the
wrapper.java.classpath.<n>
properties. The Wrapper requires that the classpath be
broken up into its individual elements. Then, because we
will also be making use of the Wrapper, it is necessary to
include the wrapper.jar
file as well:
wrapper.java.classpath.1=D:\jboss-3.0.4\lib\wrapper.jar
wrapper.java.classpath.2=D:\Sun\j2sdk1.4.0_03\lib\tools.jar
wrapper.java.classpath.3=D:\jboss-3.0.4\bin\run.jar
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The final component of the command used to launch JBoss is the
main class, org.jboss.Main.
The main class executed by Java when launched is specified by
using the
wrapper.java.mainclass
property. As mentioned above however. Because the JBoss main
class does not know how to communicate with the Wrapper, we
will set the main class to be the full class name of
WrapperSimpleApp.
The JBoss main class is then specified as the first application
parameter below.
wrapper.java.mainclass=org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperSimpleApp
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Application parameters are set using the
wrapper.app-parameter.<n>
properties. Application parameters appear in the Java command
line directly after the main class. While JBoss does not have
any such parameters, it is still necessary to set one of these
properties. This is because we are using the
WrapperSimpleApp helper class
and as described above, its first parameter is the main class
name of the application being run. in this case,
org.jboss.Main:
wrapper.app.parameter.1=org.jboss.Main
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In order to use the Wrapper, there is one more property which
much be set. The Wrapper makes use of a native library to
control interactions with the system. This file
Wrapper.DLL needs to be
specified on the library path supplied to the JVM. JBoss
does not have any native libraries of its own, but if it did,
the directories where they were located would also need to be
specified. The library path is set using the
wrapper.java-library-path.<n>
properties.
wrapper.java.library.path.1=D:\jboss-3.0.4\lib
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Putting it all together, we get the following:
wrapper.java.command=D:\Sun\j2sdk1.4.0_03\bin\java
wrapper.java.additional.1=-Dprogram.name=run.bat
wrapper.java.classpath.1=D:\jboss-3.0.4\lib\wrapper.jar
wrapper.java.classpath.2=D:\Sun\j2sdk1.4.0_03\lib\tools.jar
wrapper.java.classpath.3=D:\jboss-3.0.4\bin\run.jar
wrapper.java.library.path.1=D:\jboss-3.0.4\lib
wrapper.java.mainclass=org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperSimpleApp
wrapper.app.parameter.1=org.jboss.Main
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Notice what while this will function correctly on this
particular machine, it is highly dependent on the directory
structure and platform. By taking advantage of the fact that
the Wrapper always sets the working directory to the location
of the Wrapper.exe file
and by making use of a single environment variable, we are able
to modify the above properties so that they are completely
platform and machine independent:
wrapper.java.command=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java
wrapper.java.additional.1=-Dprogram.name=run.bat
wrapper.java.classpath.1=../lib/wrapper.jar
wrapper.java.classpath.2=%JAVA_HOME%/lib/tools.jar
wrapper.java.classpath.3=./run.jar
wrapper.java.library.path.1=../lib
wrapper.java.mainclass=org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperSimpleApp
wrapper.app.parameter.1=org.jboss.Main
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The final step is to set the Windows specific
NT/2000/XP Service Properties
properties. We will just set the properties which should be
changed. But there are several others available. See the
documentation for details on their usage. Note that
the default values of both of these variables are
Ant friendly
tokens which can easily be replaced as part of a build.
wrapper.ntservice.name=JBoss
wrapper.ntservice.displayname=JBoss Application Server
wrapper.ntservice.description=JBoss Application Server
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JBoss can now be run by simply executing the
bin\JBoss.bat script.
Because of the way the Wrapper sets its current directory, it
is not necessary to run this script from within the
bin directory.
Please try running the application once as a console application
to verify the configuration before attempting to run it as a
service.
Congratulations. Your application should now be up and running.
If you did have any problems, please take a look at the
Troubleshooting
section for help with tracking down the problem.
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