[aperi-dev] Install & runtime discussion...

[Todd Singleton <toddsing@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig and I came up with the following
list while we brainstormed enhancements to our installer and runtime (start/stop)
process.  Please feel free to comment.  He and I will continue
to discuss.  We'll use the Wednesday design meeting to go into more
depth as things evolve.   

Install Issues 

Problems 
No gui 
Complicated downloads around dojo and birt toolkit
Ease of development & development scalability 
Current technique is home grown 
jh.jar requires a manual download from the sun site   ( <---
no simple solution in site) 
No uninstaller 
No OS integration 

Candidate Solutions 
Place Icon on the system tray 
Use Ant Installer to address gui and development issues
Add dojo and birt into download.xml (requires additional development)
Download & integrate with Java Service Wrapper (OS service and daemon
integration) 

Runtime Issues 
Problems 
5 command windows pop up on windows 
No solution for a graceful shutdown 
Unix requires that each process be killed with cryptic command (go job
hunting) 
An agent scanner process may shut down when we just kill the aperi java
process 
Have to restart process every time the machine reboots

Candidate Solutions 
If we launch process from system tray (or some tool in the OS), we get
rid of the command windows 
Using java service wrapper gets free nt services and unix shell along with
process robustness 

Todd Singleton
Software Engineer, Tivoli, IBM
Menlo Park, CA
email: toddsing@xxxxxxxxxx