Re: [Wrapper-user] Greed takes down the community version of Win x64

[Leif M. <lei...@ta...>]

Boris,
Thank you for your constructive feedback, and for your first
contribution to the community.

I do need to correct you however, the community edition has never had
a single feature, let alone platform, removed.  To this date we are
actively continuing to support and add to the platforms supported by
the community edition.

The reality is that developing software consumes a lot of resources.
In the case of the Wrapper, after 8 years, thousands of hours of time,
and well over a million direct and indirect downloads, the development
community was still a team of one.   This was making it impossible to
keep the project alive and to keep up with requests for new features.
 We decided to make the compromise of adding additional Standard and
Professional editions to help fund development.  This has been very
successful for the past 3 years.  The Wrapper, including the Community
Edition, is now very active with a team of several paid developers.

We have been a long time contributor to open source, both with the
Wrapper and other projects, as is easily visible with Google.

Unfortunately, not every solution will make everyone happy.

There are actually a few ways to launch a JVM as a service.  The
Wrapper goes way beyond that however to actually protect, monitor, and
restart the JVM when needed.  It also contains a large number of
features useful to both developers and system administrators.

We are always looking for ways to make the Wrapper more useful and
look forward to your feedback.

Have a great day.

Cheers,
Leif

2010/8/25 Boris Hamanov <bs...@gm...>:
> This wrapper software was recommended to me by Codehouse Jetty
> documentation. I read all the help and decided to download it. What was my
> surprise (very unpleasant one) when I discovered that my server
> configuration is missing from the community version!  Windows x86 64 bit!
> The authors were taken by greed and decided that they will charge almost 90
> euro for that wrapper (at minimum).  So people with Windows x64 have more
> money to waste is that it? I was so pissed off! I will never pay  a single
> cent for this software! I easily solved my simple need (to start my server
> on system startup) with Windows task scheduler. For less time that took me
> to read the Java Service Wrapper docs, I might add. Here is my scheduler
> task exported as an XML. You can import it and use it in any version of
> Windows Vista or Windows 7.  FREE OF CHARGE! I will also post this on my
> blog and notify Codehouse to stop recommending that software.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
> <Task version="1.2"
> xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2004/02/mit/task">
>   <RegistrationInfo>
>     <Date>2010-08-24T18:11:18.0716</Date>
>     <Author>GreenHouseV\bsh666</Author>
>   </RegistrationInfo>
>   <Triggers>
>     <BootTrigger>
>       <Enabled>true</Enabled>
>     </BootTrigger>
>   </Triggers>
>   <Principals>
>     <Principal id="Author">
>       <UserId>SYSTEM</UserId>
>       <RunLevel>LeastPrivilege</RunLevel>
>     </Principal>
>   </Principals>
>   <Settings>
>     <IdleSettings>
>       <Duration>PT10M</Duration>
>       <WaitTimeout>PT1H</WaitTimeout>
>       <StopOnIdleEnd>true</StopOnIdleEnd>
>       <RestartOnIdle>false</RestartOnIdle>
>     </IdleSettings>
>     <MultipleInstancesPolicy>IgnoreNew</MultipleInstancesPolicy>
>     <DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>false</DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>
>     <StopIfGoingOnBatteries>true</StopIfGoingOnBatteries>
>     <AllowHardTerminate>true</AllowHardTerminate>
>     <StartWhenAvailable>false</StartWhenAvailable>
>     <RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>false</RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>
>     <AllowStartOnDemand>true</AllowStartOnDemand>
>     <Enabled>true</Enabled>
>     <Hidden>false</Hidden>
>     <RunOnlyIfIdle>false</RunOnlyIfIdle>
>     <WakeToRun>false</WakeToRun>
>     <ExecutionTimeLimit>PT0S</ExecutionTimeLimit>
>     <Priority>7</Priority>
>   </Settings>
>   <Actions Context="Author">
>     <Exec>
>       <Command>C:\jetty-7.1.6.v20100715\start.cmd</Command>
>       <WorkingDirectory>C:\jetty-7.1.6.v20100715</WorkingDirectory>
>     </Exec>
>   </Actions>
> </Task>