[Info-vax] OpenVMS x86-64 and RDB and DB's in general on OpenVMS

[Dirk Munk]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-06-29 17:01:19 +0000, Dirk Munk said:
>
>>> Hoff: You've found some platform-specific easy installer kits — in
>>> OpenVMS terms, those are PCSI kits with the Java code, and with some
>>> DCL that provides the tailored and platform-specific startup script.
>>> Load current Java and load one of those, and off you go.
>>
>> Well, in the Windows installation manual I read something about
>> services. As far as I'm aware there no such thing as a Java based
>> service ?
>
> Any hypothetical OpenVMS port would need to deal with arcane details
> such as inetd, the startup via SYSMAN or SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM and either
> via DCL or GNV bash, system parameters and/or process quotas, the Java
> versions of those C pesky run-time configuration logical names, probably
> getting Java running in a detached process, and some other dreck.
>
> Now if you want to find reasons not to do something, that's entirely
> your call.

That's not the point. I'm merely trying to figure out all the type of 
components there are in a Cassandra kit. It seesm to me that essential 
components are OS specific executables etc.

> If you want to try Cassandra, then load one of the provided
> installers or load a VM guest and go try it.
>
> Whether some site has a list of prerequisites or the rest?  That's
> interesting and useful information and it'd be nice to have.  Here, I'd
> expect to need Java and some startup hackery for odd-ball boxes.  But
> FWIW, these same (lack of) platform support details can also be a basis
> for inferring whether the platforms you're interested in and are using
> are current and maintained and ubiquitous and have an active community
> of open-source users and maintainers.  Or whether you're using what are
> exotic platforms.
>
> As for the answers to your Microsoft Windows questions, I do not know.
>
I'm sure you know what a Windows service is, and I can't imagine that a 
Windows service is written in Java.