This weekend I’m roaming a bit afield of my normal haunts.
I’m looking at service hosted JVMs in windows and in particular having such a service interact with the SERVICE_CONTROL_PRESHUTDOWN message. Handling this message allows a service to defer shutdown while handling activities that it needs to complete before the actual shutdown processing begins. I suspect it may also allow that service to call AbortSystemShutdown() in order to cancel the shutdown.
I’m looking at the Apache Commons Daemon package first as it seem to be common, well regarded and reasonably licensed. At first look it doesn’t seem to support the extended messaging from the host OS but it seems like an interesting starting point. Continue reading Looking at Java, Windows Services and hosted Javascript →
After a bunch of reinstalling of JDK code and messing with environment, the sprint tools suite is back to a working state on my small home development machine.
I’m not sure what fixed the problem but it was a rather strange one. Eclipse and IntelliJ were working normally and the java command line looked good. For some reason the STS IDE wouldn’t find some JDK pieces it expected. I have STS running on three other machines here at home without problems (and with pretty much identical installs).
Glad to have that dealt with though I wish I understood why it was broken and what actually fixed the problem.
I spent my sandbox time this weekend bouncing between JavaFX and various java spring topics.
I have pretty much concluded that JavaFX isn’t somewhere I want to spend sandbox time. It appears to be less capable and productive than WPF for local UI work and Angular on Spring appear more broadly useful in the environments where Java reigns supreme.
Continue reading Monday morning after some java spring for the weekend… →
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