XWiki Tray

XWiki Tray allows Windows users to run the XWiki server using a tray and a custom console window.

Why?

• The Windows console has a lot of weak points
  • No resize
  • No easy way doing copy + paste
  • No automatic start/restart of the process
  • ...
• Currently there is no friendly way of managing
• ...

Proposed features/behavior:

• Run minimized in tray;
• Start/Stop server
• Remember last used server/servers
• Store logs
• RTF formating for the log window
• Start on Windows startup
• Windows Events reporting
• Server process performance/usage reports.
• IzPack included

How it works?

The tray is actually a separate application that is used instead of a '.bat' file. It starts the server and monitors the activity of the process. The console is viewed by redirecting the standard input, output & error streams to the tray process.

Draft application

A draft application is available, that is used to start a jetty server jar and monitor it. You can get the application from here .

To use it, follow these steps:

• Launch the application
• Right click on the XWiki tray icon
• Click on "Select Server jar"
• Browse to your XWiki Jetty distribution -> Jetty folder. And select "start.jar"
• You should see a notification of the server startup.
• To view the console double click the tray icon or right click and press "Show console"
• To stop the server press "Stop XWiki" or "Exit" to close the tray app at the same time with the server.