Config for Tika Windows Service with Apache Commons Daemon

Question

I'm trying to get Tika JAXRS running as a Windows Service using Apache Commons Daemon.

I've got tika-server-1.7.jar from http://tika.apache.org/download.html

I've downloaded v1.0.15 of the Windows binaries for Apache Commons Daemon from http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/binaries.html

I can get Tika started as a service, but I can't determine what to use for a stop method.

prunsrv.exe //IS//tika-daemon
 --DisplayName "Tika Daemon" 
 --Classpath "C:\Tika Service\tika-server-1.7.jar"
 --StartClass "org.apache.tika.server.TikaServerCli"
 --StopClass "org.apache.tika.server.TikaServerCli"
 --StartMethod main
 --StopMethod main
 --Description "Tika Daemon Windows Service"
 --StartMode java
 --StopMode java

This starts, and works as I'd hope, but when trying to stop the service it doesn't respond. Obviously org.apache.tika.server.TikaServerCli.main(string[] args) isn't a suitable stop method, but I'm lost for alternatives.

I'd also welcome any alternative methods for getting Tika running as a Windows Service, or otherwise auto-starting outside of an interactive session.

What happens if you just define a service which runs `java.exe` with an argument `-jar tika-server.jar`, does that work? — Gagravarr, Mar 04 '15 at 10:10
Same story, service runs fine, but can't get it to stop, just times out trying. Used the following service registration command: `prunsrv.exe //IS//tika-daemon --DisplayName "Tika Daemon" --Description "Tika Daemon Windows Service" --StartMode exe --StartImage "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_31\jre\bin\java.exe" --StartPath "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_31\jre\bin" ++StartParams -jar;"C:\Tika Service\tika-server-1.7.jar"` — Snixtor, Mar 04 '15 at 23:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 05 '15 at 00:35

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It would appear this is a known issue of Apache Commons Daemon 1.0.15. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAEMON-298

I swapped in version 1.0.14, downloaded from Apache archives http://archive.apache.org/dist/commons/daemon/binaries/windows/ and the service now does shut down.

The original java StartMode produces an error on shutdown but does shutdown. The exe StartMode though, works without issue.

answered Mar 05 '15 at 00:35

Snixtor

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Having said that, I'm still not getting consistent results. 1.0.14 worked fine with exe StartMode on my Win8.1 PC, but on a WinServer2008R2 PC it shuts down, but also throws an error. – Snixtor Mar 05 '15 at 00:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '20 at 01:32

I ran into this about a year ago and found a solution. Running Apache Commons Daemon in JVM mode will allow you to specify the StartClass and the StartMethod, which works fine because you can just point it to static void Main(...){}

However, stop doesn't work because there's no stop method to call.

So, I built from source, and added a stop method. I've created a PR in the tika project for this. Babble's downvoted solution is basically the same thing, but I'd really like to see it available in the base jar file. https://github.com/apache/tika/pull/324

https://www.michaelwda.com/post/tika_windows_service a few additional details and screenshots here.

C:\source\tika\commons-daemon-1.2.2-bin-windows\amd64\prunsrv.exe //IS//tika-daemon ^
--DisplayName "Tika Daemon"  ^
--Description "Tika Daemon Windows Service" ^
--Classpath C:\source\tika\tika-server.jar ^
--StartClass "org.apache.tika.server.TikaServerCli" ^
--StopClass "org.apache.tika.server.TikaServerCli" ^
--StartMethod main ^
--StopMethod stop ^
--StartMode jvm  ^
--StopMode jvm ^
--StdOutput auto ^
--StdError auto ^
--Jvm "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_211\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll" ^
++StartParams -spawnChild

Babble · Answer 3 · 2019-04-01T14:57:14.070

I've created a MSI which does this all for you: https://github.com/wbicode/TikaService-Installer (or you can install the setup yourself: https://github.com/wbicode/TikaService)

You'll have to create a separate class which implements its own start/stop-class (tika-server-X.X.jar is in it's classpath).

public class WinService {

  public static void start(String[] args) {
      Class<?> clazz = Class.forName("org.apache.tika.server.TikaServerCli");
      Method method = clazz.getMethod("main", String[].class);
      method.setAccessible(true);

      method.invoke(null, (Object)args.toArray(new String[0]));
  }

  public static void stop(String[] args) {
      System.out.println("stopping... TikaService");
      Runtime.getRuntime().exit(0);
  }
}

And it's installed with this script (the tika-server-X.X.jar lies inside the lib folder):

prunsrv.exe //IS//tika-daemon ^
    --DisplayName "Tika Daemon" ^
    --Classpath "%SERVICE_PATH%\TikaService.jar;%SERVICE_PATH%\lib\*" ^
    --StartMode java ^
    --StartClass "your.namespace.WinService" ^
    --StartMethod start ^
    --StopMode java ^
    --StopClass "your.namespace.WinService" ^
    --StopMethod stop ^
    --Description "Tika Daemon Windows Service" ^

Config for Tika Windows Service with Apache Commons Daemon

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