On 8/12/10 9:27 AM, NBW wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> What exactly do you mean by 'stopped working'? Does your code
> execution hang? If so did you take a thread dump? Did it work as a
> service until you add -Xrs or is this the first time you ran it as a
> service? A common trap when using Runtime.exec etc. is not draining
> the processes STDERR/STDOUT streams in separate threads. Failing to do
> so can result in random deadlocking during process execution. Here's
> an example of a way to deal with that issue [1].
yes.
Also I guess the PATH for the notepad application is not known by a
windows service which run in a different environment than a normal user
where you can define env variables and PATH.
Ludo
>
> -Noah
>
> [1] -
> http://vyvaks.wordpress.com/2006/05/27/does-runtimeexec-hangs-in-java/
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:57 AM, <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org
> <mailto:glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem on Glassfish 3.0.1 running on windows server
> 2008. I'am using a servlet to start another process but this has
> stopped working. I recently changed Glassfish to run as a service
> so that it would not terminate if a user logs out. Up until the
> service change all was working fine.
>
> Test code snippet :-
>
> String cmd = "notepad";
> System.out.println(cmd);
> Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
> Process proc = rt.exec( cmd );
>
> There are no error messages or exceptions in the server log.
> The code still works fine on my development XP machine where
> Glassfish is not a service.
>
> Is Glassfish running as a service the problem?
> How can I resolve this issue?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Alan
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