id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,external_id 953,Installer: provide better Tomcat service install experience,jbirch,,"Currently, Tomcat gets installed, but no services are installed, and there is no check to ensure that a JRE/JDK is installed. Users have to: - Install JDK - Run services.bat from Tomcat/bin - Manually configure Apache Although it would be great to offer a bare Tomcat option, this would take a lot of work (removing the options for Apache and PHP components during the install, providing and alternate configuration for Tomcat with non-Apache !MapAgent, rewriting mapadmin in .jsp, etc). In the meantime we can do a fair amount just by automating the installation of the Tomcat service when the JSP viewer is chosen with the Bundled install. Steps for this would looks something like: Pull the current version from: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\!JavaSoft\Java Development Kit\@!CurrentVersion Get the value of JAVA_HOME from: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\!JavaSoft\Java Development Kit\{@!CurrentVersion}\!JavaHome Do a file search to ensure that %JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe exists If it doesn't exist, we can warn the user that the Java web extensions will not be available. If it does exist, we can run a custom action something like this to install the service (cobbled together from service.bat in Tomcat/bin): {{{ [TomcatInstallDir]Tomcat/bin/tomcat6.exe //IS//[TC_SERVICE_NAME] --DisplayName [TC_SERVICE_DISPLAYNAME] --Description [TC_SERVICE_DESCRIPTION] --LogPath=[TomcatInstallDir]\logs --ClassPath=[TomcatInstallDir]\bin\bootstrap.jar --Install [TomcatInstallDir]Tomcat/bin/tomcat6.exe --StartClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap --StopClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap --StartParams start --StopParams stop --Startup auto }}} And something similar for uninstall... ",enhancement,new,low,4.0,Installer,,minor,,,,