[mapguide-trac] #953: Installer: provide better Tomcat service install experience

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#953: Installer:  provide better Tomcat service install experience
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   Reporter:  jbirch       |       Owner:       
       Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new  
   Priority:  low          |   Milestone:  2.2  
  Component:  Installer    |     Version:  2.1.0
   Severity:  minor        |    Keywords:       
External_id:               |  
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 Currently, Tomcat gets installed, but no services are installed, and there
 is no check to ensure that a JRE/JDK is installed.  Users have to:

 - Install JDK
 - Run services.bat from Tomcat/bin
 - Manually configure Apache

 Although it would be great to offer a bare Tomcat option, this would take
 a lot of work (removing the options for Apache and PHP components during
 the install, providing and alternate configuration for TomCat with non-
 Apache MapAgent,  rewriting mapadmin in .jsp, etc).  In the meantime we
 can do a fair amount just by automating the installation of the Tomcat
 service when the JSP viewer is chosen with the Bundled install.

 Steps for this would looks something like:

 Pull the current version from:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Development
 Kit\@CurrentVersion

 Get the value of JAVA_HOME from:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Development
 Kit\{@CurrentVersion}\JavaHome

 Do a file search to ensure that %JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe exists

 If it doesn't exist, we can warn the user that the Java web extensions
 will not be available.

 If it does exist, we can run a custom action something like this to
 install the service (cobbled together from service.bat in Tomcat/bin):

   [TomcatInstallDir]Tomcat/bin/tomcat6.exe //IS//[TC_SERVICE_NAME]
      --DisplayName [TC_SERVICE_DISPLAYNAME]
      --Description [TC_SERVICE_DESCRIPTION]
      --LogPath=[TomcatInstallDir]\logs
      --ClassPath=[TomcatInstallDir]\bin\bootstrap.jar
      --Install [TomcatInstallDir]Tomcat/bin/tomcat6.exe
      --StartClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
      --StopClass org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
      --StartParams start
      --StopParams stop
      --Startup auto

 And something similar for uninstall...

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