Installing Fuse Message Broker as a Windows Service

Fuse Message Broker ships with wrapper that simplifies the process of installing it as a service on a machine running Windows.

Configuring the Wrapper
Installing and Starting the Windows Service

Fuse Message Broker uses a wrapper, based on the Java service wrapper from Tanuki Software Ltd., that provides a solution to the problem of launching a Java application as a Windows service. The wrapper provides a mechanism for specifying all of the required JVM and application specific parameters to the Windows' service interface.

The wrapper is located in the bin/win32 folder of a Windows Fuse Message Broker installation. This folder contains the following:

activemq.bat—script that starts the broker in the foreground
InstallService.bat—script that installs the broker as a Windows service
UninstallService.bat—script that uninstalls the broker from the service registry
wrapper.conf—file that configures the wrapper service
wrapper.dll
wrapper.exe—wrapper service executable

Note

FuseSource does support the 64 bit version of the service wrapper. However, due to licensing concerns, you must obtain it directly from Tanuki Software Ltd..

Before using the wrapper to install Fuse Message Broker as a Windows service, you will want to check the wrappers configuration to ensure it is set up properly.

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