Are there any available alternatives to using JavaMonitor?
I recently was quite frustrated with a problem where JavaMonitor
simply wouldn't launch my application or give any output, while the
application would run fine from the command line. I don't like
being held hostage by an application that sometimes decides not to
work. In this case restarting the server made it work.
That sounds like you had a hung instance that consumed all of the
ports / file handles preventing JM from talking to wotaskd. I have
found JM to be reliable provided that the machine was not messed up
with something like this.
Is there something else besides JavaMonitor that can be used to
manage or at least just launch applications?
How can you run an app from the command line and have it appear
like an app that was started by JavaMonitor ( i.e., no "~port" at
the end of the URL).
JavaMonitor is just an editor for /Library/WebObjects/Configuration/
SiteConfig.xml with a channel to wotaskd to alert and query it. You
could write your own, or make scripts that launch the apps. IMHO,
both way more effort than it is worth.
