Introduction you can easily start your java program as a part of the OS loading sequence by using one of many available tools today and i can see that Java Service Wrapper is the easiest way to do so... the best thing about this tool is that you configure a property file for your windows service and use the same file for installing unix deamon.... Downloading and Installing there are three packages of Java Service Wrapper: professional, standard and community the last is free under GPLv2 extract the file to a folder(this folder will be referenced as ${wrapper_home} ) Your Side Develop, compile and jar your java desktop application that for sure got a class with the main method... Wrapper Side the wrapper comes with an example service, all you have to do is the following edit the file ${wrapper_home}\conf\wrapper.conf (will be described in details shortly) use the batch files located at ${wrapper_home}\bin to install, start, stop, suspend, resume and uninstall the serv...
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