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0 pointsLoSboccacc8y ago0 comments

Having been in a similar situation, many enterprise software require a precise start order and shutdown, sometime even depending to certain system services or some arcane stuff that then breaks in unpredictable times and often the only sane way to restart the environment is to bring it down whole

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noir_lord8y ago

Exactly this, it was a horrible piece of enterprise software that depended on other similary horrible pieces of crap.

The only way to get it into a known good state when it shit the bed was to reboot the machine and then let it sort itself out.

We rapidly moved away from using it.

Funnily enough I'm in a similar situation at the new job with Jasper Reports, god damn if that thing isn't everything bad about Enterprise Java(TM).

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