jboss 7 standalone windows service

A simple Windows Service for manage JBoss 7 Standalone Application Server.

JBoss 7 Standalone As Windows Service

This is a simple Windows Service built in C# that manages the JBoss 7 Standalone Server in terms of starting and shutting down the server.

Requirements

  • Define an environment variable called JBOSS_HOME that holds the absolute path where JBoss is installed (click here for see how to setup). This variable it’s used by the service for resolve the path of the batch files standalone.bat and jboss-cli.bat.

  • Ensure you have the command line utility Installutil which comes with .NET framework.

Where you find Installutil tool in your computer?

You can find it in this path:

%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework[64]\<dotnet_framework_version>

Where windir is a system environment variable that points to the Windows OS files, and dotnet_framework_version is the .NET framework version installed in your machine.

Installation

Clone this repository, and build it in your machine. Open a command prompt as Administrator, navigate to the JBoss project compilation output folder: \Jboss\bin\{Debug | Release} (you can enter either Debug or Release based on your build configuration), and run the command below to install the service in your machine:

> installutil JBoss.exe

By the way, I don’t recommend register the service from the assembly located in your bin folder. Instead, copy the assembly and store it in a new folder where you can isolate your service development.

In case you want to uninstall, ensure the service is not running, and run the command below:

> installutil /u JBoss.exe

How the service works internally?

Once you have installed the service, you’re able to start using right away! 😃 Check below what happen when you start or stop the service:

  • When the service is starting, it’s invoking the standalone.bat batch file for start JBoss in the background.
  • When the service is being stoped, it’s calling the jboss-cli.bat batch file with the arguments --connect command=:shutdown that sends a signal to the instance running of JBoss to shutdown.

Service troubleshooting

If you face any problem when either starting or stoping the service, please refer to the Windows logs for more details.

Issues

If you encounter any issue while using it, don’t doubt in creating an issue over here. I’d appreciate deliver its solution the soon as possible! (and also get help from the community 😁).

Known issues

  • In case the jboss-cli.bat file isn’t found, the JBoss can’t be stopped even though the main process is killed (the process that started the JBoss when the service itself began).