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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:24:26 -0500
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This sounds excellent. I can't wait until we can put it to the test for 
Felix.

-> richard

Alex Karasulu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is for those anxiously awaiting an installer.  I think we have 
> something better than expected.
>
> I'm almost done building a maven plugin which generates installers for 
> a project whose final product is a UNIX daemon or a Windows service 
> using jakarta commons daemon jsvc and procrun respectively.  The 
> plugin will generate multiple installers when asked for a project.  
> We're using it already for ApacheDS and we have generalized it for any 
> server application.  It should be ready right after the soon to arrive 
> 1.0-RC1 release.  The plugin has rough edges but we should be fine 
> making it work.
>
> Here's the URL for it now.  This might move over to the maven repo at 
> some point though (after I clean it up a bit):
>
>    http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/directory/trunks/daemon/
>
> Here's what some generated installers look like using apacheds as an 
> example:
>
>    http://people.apache.org/~akarasulu/apacheds/
>
> Alex
>
>