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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am just chatting with Knut on this.

I think the better solution would be in the Launch4j exe, where we can
specify a path to the JRE with the <path> directive. We could do the
same for the launch.sh script on Linux. Jetty is called by the
Launch4j wrapper, which accept these parameters.

  <jre>
    <!-- Specify one of the following or both -->
    <path>bundled JRE path</path>
    <minVersion>x.x.x[_xx]</minVersion>
    <maxVersion>x.x.x[_xx]</maxVersion>
    <jdkPreference>jreOnly|preferJre|preferJdk|jdkOnly</jdkPreference>
    <!-- Heap sizes in MB and % of free memory -->
    <initialHeapSize>MB</initialHeapSize>
    <initialHeapPercent>%</initialHeapPercent>
    <maxHeapSize>MB</maxHeapSize>
    <maxHeapPercent>%</maxHeapPercent>
    <opt>text</opt>
    ...
  </jre>

So as long as we bundle the JRE (which sounds like what needs to be
done) then everything should work just fine. It will just increase the
size of the install by about 15 MB.


Maybe Lars or Bob could comment, but this seems like the solution to me.

Regards,
JPP



On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olatitle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2 March 2010 09:21, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 2010/3/2 Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Lets not put BIRT in, we have Jasper, if people want BIRT they can
>>> > download
>>> > and install it separately, its quite big...
>>> >
>>>
>>> Fine, but I need it here, and this was the original reason for the
>>> installer, so I will have another version with BIRT.
>>>
>>>
>>> >>
>>> >> 2) A "lite install" allowing the user to download and manually
>>> >> install, with H2. . Footprint is around 60 MB.
>>> >
>>> > This sounds good to me. I am envisioning this range of downloads:
>>> >
>>> > A. Cross-platform Live package
>>> > (DHIS 2 Live with H2 as we have it today, no installer)
>>>
>>> Well, we can build multiple native installers for the Live Package. it
>>> is just an extra line in the Pom. If we need a multiple platforms
>>> (Mac, Linux, etc) we can build it during the installer build. Of
>>> course, people can just grab the zip file if they want, but BitRock
>>> can build for multiple platforms.
>>>
>>> > B. Windows on-line installer
>>> > Similar to your 2. alternative.
>>> > C. Windows off-line installer.
>>> > Similar to your 1. alternative. A dedicated Java sounds like a good
>>> > idea.
>>> > Can we achieve this simply by setting JAVA_HOME "temporarily" while
>>> > starting
>>> > DHIS? I guess Bitrock allows for this..?
>>>
>>> BitRock can do this, but it may influence other programs. Could the
>>> Launch4j wrapper be used for this, or maybe an alternative environment
>>> variable?
>>>
>>
>> Not sure JAVA_HOME is necessary - we are not compiling anything. I think
>> it could be sufficient to modify the menu shortcut links that start DHIS.
>
> We set this environment variable (should perhaps think of JAVA_OPTS as well)
> as a parameter temporarily on jetty startup, that way we are not interfering
> with how other systems use it. Not sure how you start up jetty, but if its a
> java -jar command we could just add JAVA_HOME=XX as a parameter to that
> command like we could add JAVA_OPTS=XX as well.
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> > D. Linux debian package
>>> > Bob's deb as we have it today.
>>> >
>>>
>>> BitRock can also produce a RPM, Deb packages (somehow) but I have not
>>> looked at the details. We might consider rolling all of this up into
>>> BitRock at some point, but it is good to have the deb installer as
>>> well.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> JPP
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>> Jason P. Pickering
>>> email: jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
>>> tel:+260968395190
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Knut Staring
>>
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