Trying out Apache procrun I see a behaviour that I do not understand. It boils down to the main method of the Java program throwing an exception. This is not logged anywhere and the Windows service does not stop. To investigate further I changed the main method to
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
if (args.length<10000000) {
throw new Exception("one exception right away");
}
...
}
When I install this as a service with prunsrv.exe and then start it, it starts without problems and produces no log output whatsoever. In particular the service does not stop.
For reference, here is how the service is installed with procrun:
& $procrun "//$operation//$service" `
--DisplayName="$service" `
--Description="$service" `
--DependsOn="$depends" `
--Startup=auto `
--Install="$procrun" `
--Jvm="$JVM" `
--Classpath="$cp" `
--Environment="PATH=$env:JAVA_HOME\bin" `
--JavaHome="$env:JAVA_HOME" `
--StartPath="c:\Search" `
--JvmOptions="-Xmx512M;-Xms512M;-Djava.awt.headless=true" `
--StartMode="jvm" `
--StartClass="$classname" `
--LogPath="c:\Search\std-logs" `
--LogPrefix="procrun-$service" `
--LogLevel="Debug" `
--StdError="c:\Search\std-logs\stderr-$no0" `
--StdOutput="c:\Search\std-logs\stdout-$no0" `
--StartParams="(unused)"
I would have expected that the service stops right away and I find some log output in the stderr/stdout files, but nothing. Can anyone explain this?
EDIT: Oh my, it seems like procrun swallows java.lang.Error (in my case java.lang.noClassDefFoundError) instead of screaming, shouting and exiting.
