So, if you’re looking for alternatives there are several other nice projects out there. YAJSW is super easy to configure and use no native code.

You can generate a config file from a running Java process by giving the process ID. Found that it’s easy to start from here and then tweak the system paths according to your setup.

Following wrapper.conf file can be used to start any WSO2 Carbon product as a service in Windows. In the following configuration I’ve hard coded the working dir but that can easily be set to take from an environment variable just like the JVM path. I’ve removed comments from wrapper.conf for brevity.

wrapper.working.dir=C:\\test\\wso2greg-4.1.1

wrapper.java.app.mainclass= org.wso2.carbon.bootstrap.Bootstrap

wrapper.console.loglevel=INFO

wrapper.console.title="WSO2 G-Reg"

wrapper.ntservice.name="WSO2GREG"

wrapper.ntservice.displayname="WSO2 GREG"

wrapper.ntservice.description="Governance Registry"

wrapper.daemon.run_level_dir=${if (new File('\/etc\/rc0.d').exists()) return '\/etc\/rcX.d' else return '\/etc\/init.d\/rcX.d'}

wrapper.tray = true

wrapper.tray.port = 15002

wrapper.on_exit.0=SHUTDOWN
wrapper.on_exit.default=RESTART

wrapper.filter.trigger.0=Exception
wrapper.filter.script.0=scripts\/trayMessage.gv
wrapper.filter.script.0.args=Exception

placeHolderSoGenPropsComeHere=
wrapper.java.command = ${JAVA_HOME}\\bin\\java
wrapper.java.classpath.1 = .\\lib
wrapper.java.classpath.2 = ${JAVA_HOME}\\lib\\tools.jar
wrapper.java.classpath.3 = .\\bin\\org.wso2.carbon.bootstrap-3.2.2.jar
wrapper.java.classpath.4 = .\\lib\\endorsed
wrapper.app.parameter.1 = RUN
wrapper.app.parameter.2 = -Dcarbon.registry.root=\/
wrapper.app.parameter.3 = -Dcarbon.home=c:\\test\\wso2greg-4.1.1
wrapper.app.parameter.4 = -Dwso2.server.standalone=true
wrapper.app.parameter.5 = -Djava.command=${JAVA_HOME}\\bin\\java
wrapper.app.parameter.8 = -Dcarbon.xbootclasspath=;.\\lib\\xboot\\org.wso2.carbon.xboot-3.2.0.jar
wrapper.app.parameter.9 = -Djava.io.tmpdir=.\\bin\\..\\tmp
wrapper.app.parameter.10 = -Dwso2.carbon.xml=.\\bin\\..\\repository\\conf\\carbon.xml
wrapper.app.parameter.11 = -Dwso2.registry.xml=.\\bin\\..\\repository\\conf\\registry.xml
wrapper.app.parameter.12 = -Dwso2.user.mgt.xml=.\\bin\\..\\repository\\conf\\user-mgt.xml
wrapper.app.parameter.13 = -Dwso2.transports.xml=.\\bin\\..\\repository\\conf\\mgt-transports.xml
wrapper.app.parameter.14 = -Djava.util.logging.config.file=.\\bin\\..\\lib\\log4j.properties
wrapper.app.parameter.15 = -Dcarbon.config.dir.path=.\\bin\\..\\repository\\conf
wrapper.app.parameter.16 = -Dcarbon.logs.path=.\\bin\\..\\repository\\logs
wrapper.app.parameter.17 = -Dcomponents.repo=.\\bin\\..\\repository\\components
wrapper.app.parameter.18 = -Dcom.atomikos.icatch.file=.\\bin\\..\\lib\\transactions.properties
wrapper.app.parameter.19 = -Dcom.atomikos.icatch.hide_init_file_path=true
wrapper.app.parameter.20 = -Dorg.apache.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl.LIMIT_BUFFER=true
wrapper.app.parameter.21 = -Dcom.sun.jndi.ldap.connect.pool.authentication=simple
wrapper.app.parameter.22 = -Dcom.sun.jndi.ldap.connect.pool.timeout=3000
wrapper.app.parameter.23 = -Dcarbon.classpath=.\\lib;${JAVA_HOME}\\lib\\tools.jar;;.\\bin\\org.wso2.carbon.bootstrap-3.2.2.jar;
wrapper.java.additional.1 = -Xbootclasspath\/a:;.\\lib\\xboot\\org.wso2.carbon.xboot-3.2.0.jar
wrapper.java.additional.2 = -Xms256m
wrapper.java.additional.3 = -Xmx512m
wrapper.java.additional.4 = -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
wrapper.java.additional.5 = -Dimpl.prefix=Carbon
wrapper.java.additional.6 = -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
wrapper.java.additional.7 = -Djava.endorsed.dirs=.\\lib\\endorsed;

$ export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m"

First step, build Axis2 1.4.1 from the custom branch

$ svn co http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/branches/axis2/v1.4.1 axis2-1.4.1-branch

Next find the revision of the branch,

$ cd axis2-1.4.1-branch
$ svn info
Path: .
URL: http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/branches/axis2/v1.4.1
Repository Root: http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2
Repository UUID: a5903396-d722-0410-b921-86c7d4935375
Revision: 32422
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: amila
Last Changed Rev: 30518
Last Changed Date: 2009-02-06 10:39:03 +0530 (Fri, 06 Feb 2009)

Revision 30518 have an inconsistency in modules/addressing/pom.xml where the addressing artefact ID is wrong. You have to get this patch and apply it. Download, save it somewhere and do the following to apply the patch.

$ cd modules/addressing
$ patch -p0 < /home/chintana/addressing-pom.patch
$ cd ../..

Now you're at the Axis2 root level. Before building at the root level you have to build two plugins,

$ cd modules/tool/axis2-mar-maven-plugin
$ mvn clean install
$ cd ../axis2-aar-maven-plugin/
$ mvn clean install
$ cd ../../..

Back at the root level, now you can build the project,

$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Next step is to build Rampart from the custom branch,

$ svn co http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/branches/rampart/1.4.wso2 rampart-custom
$ cd rampart-custom
$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Build Sandesha from the custom branch,

$ svn co http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/branches/sandesha2/1.4.wso2 sandesha-custom
$ cd sandesha-custom
$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Next up is Savan, again from a custom branch,

$ svn co https://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/branches/savan/1.0wso2v1 savan-custom
$ cd savan-custom
$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Now all the prerequisites are complete for the Carbon platform. Let's go ahead and build Carbon. It has 3 parts. carbon-orbit, carbon and carbon-components (for carbon I had to change the addressing.version property in root level pom.xml to 1.4.1),

$ svn co http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/trunk/carbon-orbit
$ cd carbon-orbit
$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true
$ cd ..
$ svn co http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/trunk/carbon
$ cd carbon
$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true
$ cd ..
$ svn co http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/trunk/carbon-components
$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

All righty! After this you can go ahead and build other products which are designed on top of Carbon such as WSO2 WSAS, WSO2 ESB etc...