[Wrapper-user] Wrapper Version 3.0.0 Released

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

Sorry for the long wait, but Version 3.0.0 has finally been released.
The rework of the documentation took more time than I had planned.
It is still a work in progress, but it was past time to get this version
out.

Please download this new version and let me know of any problems
in the documentation or otherwise.

I tried to add more descriptive tutorials of the integration process.
As most of you have experience with integrating the Wrapper, I would
be interested in any feedback on whether or not these tutorials will
help simplify the process for new users.

There were a lot of changes in this version, so be sure to take a look
at the release notes for a full list of changes:
http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/doc/english/release-notes.html

Cheers,
Leif

Java Service Wrapper Revision History.
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3.0.0
* Deprecated the com.silveregg.wrapper package in favor of
org.tanukisoftware.wrapper. The classes and interfaces in the silveregg
package will continue to function, but migration to the new package should
be done when possible. See the project history for details.
* On Windows systems change any forward slashes in the wrapper.java.command
property to back slashes. Some users had reported having problems on
Windows XP.
* Implemented feature request #633178. Added
WrapperManager.requestThreadDump()
to force the current JVM to immediately perform a thread dump.
* Fixed bug where wrapper.logfile.maxsize was being set to 0 if the 'k'
or 'm'
unit was ommitted.
* Add the ability to specify an account name and password when installing an
NT service.
* Add a property, wrapper.ntservice.interactive, which makes it possible to
control whether or not the Java process can gain access to the desktop while
it is running as an NT service.
* Add limited support for 1.2.x versions of Java. Shutdown hooks are
supported until Java 1.3 so those functions will be disabled. If the
application displays a GUI then Java 1.3 should be used as the GUI can not
currently be displayed when using Java 1.2.x.
* Made it possible to use the wrapper.pidfile property on all *nix
platforms.
Please notice that the property has been removed from the default
wrapper.conf file. The property is not needed when the wrapper is launched
with the bash shell script. The sh shell script will set the wrapper.pidfile
when the wrapper is launched. If either of the scripts provided with the
Wrapper distribution are used then the wrapper.pidfile should always be
removed from your wrapper.conf file.
* Added a new wrapper.daemonize property which, when set, will form the
wrapper
process to be a detached non-session group leader. This makes it possible to
launch the wrapper in such a way that it will not be terminated when the
user
launching the process logs out. This had been a problem on Solaris systems
when using the sh shell. The default sh and bash scripts both make use of
this in the default. Please update your scripts for use with this version.
Thanks to Rajiv Subrahmanyam for the patch.
* Fix a problem where the Wrapper was incorrectly counting the number of
non-daemon threads in BEA's JRockit Virtual Machine. This was causing the
application to shutdown when the non-daemon thread count dropped to 1.
* Added support for building the wrapper on AIX and HPUX systems. Thanks for
the patches involved go out to Ashish Gawarikar and William Lee.
* Implement feature request #653131 to force the JVM to immediately exit
when
the user presses CTRL-C multiple times.
* Added a 'console' action to the bash and sh scripts to make it possible to
launch the Wrapper in the current shell process. The 'start' task will
launch
the Wrapper as a spawned daemon process.
* Fixed a problem where missing environment variables specified in classpath
or library path properties were not being handled correctly.
* Implemented feature request #676599 to enable the filtering of JVM
output to
trigger JVM restarts or Wrapper shutdowns. See the new
wrapper.filter.trigger.n and wrapper.filter.action.n properties.
* Modify the Win32 version of the Wrapper so that Environment Variables are
always read from the system registry when the Wrapper is run as a service.
By doing this, it makes it possible to change or add the system environment
variables and have them take effect without having to first reboot the
machine.
* Implemented cascading configuration files.
* Changed the default value for the wrapper.java.initmemory property to
be 3Mb.
The default on Windows and Linux JVMs is 2Mb, but the Solaris JVM requires
a minimum of 3Mb. The minimum value accepted by the Wrapper was changed
from 8Mb to 1Mb to make it possible to reduce the footprint of applications
to what is possible without using the wrapper.
* Improve the parsing of config files so that leading and trailing white
space
is now correctly trimmed. It is also now possible to have comments at the
end of a line containing a property.
* Modify the way exceptions thrown by an application's main method are
presented to the user by the WrapperSimpleApp and WrapperStartStopApp so
they no longer look like a problem with Wrapper configuration.