Eclipse Service Plug-in

Oren Sadeh [osadeh at users.sourceforge.net]

News:

12-Oct-05: Added support for Eclipse 3.0, and improved ease-of-use.

28-Sep-05: The upcoming version is more or less what I had in my mind when I started designing this plug-in. This means that its main planned features are now implemented. Eclipse Help content is still missing, and I guess I haven't solve the last bug. Also, managing remote servers over slow connection might lead to problems I will have to solve. If you want to suggest, comment or contribute, please don't hesitate to send feedback or rate this plugin (please refer to Known Bugs section before reporting).

Features:

• Project home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipservices/

• Plug-in for controlling Win32 services from the Eclipse Workbench.

• Manage local server, as well as remote Windows servers.

• Designed for Eclipse 3.1.

Installation:

• Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipservices/ and unzip into Eclipse directory, or
• Update from http://eclipservices.sourceforge.net/update/
• Restart Eclipse

Configuration:

• From the Eclipse Menu > Window > Show View > Other, select Services view from the Services category. You will see the following View

The following actions are available from the Context Menu, Drop-down Menu or Toolbar:

Icon	Action
	Add Server to managed Servers list. You can also click the button which inside the view
	Configure Services on current Server. When no Services are configured, a button will appear in the view content area
	Start selected Service
	Stop selected Service
	Pause selected Service
	Restart selected Service
	Refresh current Server view

• Click the to add a new Server. You'll see this dialog:

• Type in the Server name and click OK
• Click the to select Services on the Server. You'll see this dialog:

• Here you can select Services from the available Service on the Server. You can use the Filter text box or the checkbox to filter Service list.
• Click OK. Now you'll see the Service View with Server & Service data (shown with context menu)

• To set Preferences, Right-click in the Services view and select Preferences from the context menu and select Services in the Preference page tree
• Currently, Preference page consists of only one field:

  • A integer value where you can specify the timeout (in seconds) for controlling a Service.

• That's it. All Servers & Services are configured. Now you can control the Services as you wish. Note that Service Control actions can sometime take time, and therefore launched as Eclipse Jobs, which you can send to the background (by clicking 'Run in Background' button).

Known Bugs:

• Preference scheme was changed from version 0.2.0 to 0.5.0. You might experience problems upgrading, and you might need to manually remove the old version from Eclipse plugins directory. Sorry about the inconvenience, but I believe it worth the trouble :-).

Future Releases:

• Improve UI
• Support Eclipse 3.0

Feedback:

• Please email to osadeh at users.sourceforge.net, or http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipservices.
• Rate this plugin @ http://eclipse-plugins.info
• Rate this plugin @ Eclipse Plugin Central

Bug Reports / Feature Requests:

• Please submit to http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipservices.

Change Log: