JavaService: Use classpath from manifest?

[allancady]

I have an application packaged in a jar file, and I specify the
classpath for all of the application's dependencies in the jar file's
manifest.mf:

Main-Class: com.us.ourapp.Main
Class-Path: ../lib/commons-beanutils.jar
../lib/commons-collections-3.1.jar
../lib/commons-configuration-1.1.jar
etc.

This makes it very handy to run the app from the command line:

java -jar dist\ourapp.jar

Now I'm trying to deploy the app as a service, using JavaService. I've
used JavaService before, but I specified the full classpath explicitly
on the JavaService install command
(using -Djava.class.path...) Now I'm trying to figure out if it's
possible to use the -jar approach with JavaService, such that it uses
the classpath from the manifest. So far no luck.

Can anyone tell me if this is something that JavaService supports, and
if so, how to do it? Or am I out of luck?

Thanks,

Allan

 

[Sharp Tool]

I have an application packaged in a jar file, and I specify the
classpath for all of the application's dependencies in the jar file's
manifest.mf:

Main-Class: com.us.ourapp.Main
Class-Path: ../lib/commons-beanutils.jar
../lib/commons-collections-3.1.jar
../lib/commons-configuration-1.1.jar
etc.

This makes it very handy to run the app from the command line:

java -jar dist\ourapp.jar

Now I'm trying to deploy the app as a service, using JavaService. I've
used JavaService before, but I specified the full classpath explicitly
on the JavaService install command
(using -Djava.class.path...) Now I'm trying to figure out if it's
possible to use the -jar approach with JavaService, such that it uses
the classpath from the manifest. So far no luck.

Can anyone tell me if this is something that JavaService supports, and
if so, how to do it? Or am I out of luck?

Thanks,

Allan

NEver heard of JavaService.
You have a link?

Sharp tool

 

[Roedy Green]

Can anyone tell me if this is something that JavaService supports, and
if so, how to do it? Or am I out of luck

see http://javaservice.objectweb.org/

I suggest an experiment.

Just write a minimal app with the startup, main and shutdown methods
and dump the system properties. Try classForName on some classes in
various jars to see if they are accessible.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/properties.html

Please report back with what you find out.