Config for Tika Windows Service with Apache Commons Daemon - jetty

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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" ^