Re: [Wrapper-user] Windows 2003 support and restart issue

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

Sam,
> Does the java service wrapper support Windows 2003?  I do not see it 
> listed in the Operating Systems list (NT, 2000 and XP are listed).  Is 
> this a simple omission or is it not tested/supported yet?
I don't have access to a Windows 2003 system to do testing personally, 
but I know
that users have used it successfully.
> Also, an issue has began occuring whereby all files associated with 
> our services are being removed upon reboot of the server.  All wrapper 
> files (jar, dll and exe) and all the jars listed in the classpath for 
> the services are removed - but not always(it's happened twice now)! 
>  I'm assuming this is something i'm going to have to troubleshoot 
> myself, but if anyone has any insight or has had similar issues please 
> let me know.  Our services are being installed with installshield and 
> the issues are being seen on Windows 2003 (note the question above).
Strange.  Where those two times on the same system?  Or different ones?  
I can't think
of anything having to do with the Wrapper that would be causing this.  
Were there any
other files being accessed by that JVM?  Did they also get deleted?
Was the wrapper.log file still there?  Does it show that the JVM and 
Wrapper shutdown
cleanly before the reboot, or did the system appear to shutdown suddenly?

A few years ago, I was running a Windows XP system with a FAT32 file system.
Every once in a while the JVM would crash and would not come up again unless
I rebooted the system.  I would get strange errors about not being able 
to read some
of the DLLs..  After a reboot, it would sometimes work.  But other 
times, the DLLs
would be permanently corrupted, requiring a Java reinstall.  Never made 
any sense to
me as the system should only be reading those files when running the 
JVM.  Hasn't
happened since I moved to NTFS.

There will always be things in this universe that man was not meant to 
understand...
:-/

Cheers,
Leif