Re: [Wrapper-user] run windows "service" in session 1

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

Michael,
If you launch the Wrapper in console mode then it should be in the
current desktop.

bin/wrapper.exe -c ../conf/wrapper.conf

Please let me know how this works for you.

Cheers,
Leif

2010/11/25 Michael Böckling <mic...@we...>:
> Hi Leif,
> thanks for the reply. I m aware of this situation, thats why I use a
> workaround. I have an interactive user auto-logon on bootup and start the
> app in that user's session (as a regular process, not as a service).
> I simply would like to use the configuration model and the features of the
> wrapper (e.g. jvm auto-relaunch on OutOfMemoryException), I don't want to
> start my app as a service, I gave that up. Is there a way to do that? Even
> the normal start/stop scripts seem to launch my app in session 0, not just
> the install-as-service stuff.
> Regards,
> Michael
>
> Am 25.11.2010 um 04:02 schrieb Leif Mortenson:
>
> Michael,
> Unfortunately, Microsoft changed the way Windows handles Interactive
> services to improve security.   It is no longer possible for a process
> running as a service to communicate with any desktop other than the
> session 0 desktop.
>
> We are working on a way to work around this but it is going to involve
> multiple processes and will NOT allow a normal Java application
> running as a service which has a GUI to display its GUI directly.
> This is still a little ways off however.  It will involve launching
> secondary Wrapper and optionally Java processes in the individual
> desktop's user space that will interact with each desktop.  These
> child processes will then communicate back to the central Wrapper and
> or JVM that is always running as a service.
>
> This is still in progress, so I would appreciate any feedback from the
> community on what they need in this area.
>
> Cheers,
> Leif
>
> 2010/11/25 Michael Böckling <mic...@we...>:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have a special case where I would like to run a java "service" in an
>
> interactive session (session 1) on a windows 7 box. Is this possible?
>
> Basically: how to use the wrapper without running the JVM in session 0.
>
> Any help is welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Böckling
>
> Westernacher Products & Services AG