windows service type application in Java

[Vicky Pandya]

I have a standalone program, which needs to be converted into a windows service flavor. I know I can make a thread schedular which continiously runs into memory and runs particular query(my requirement) every minute or so. I am trying to gather ideas here for the best implementation/approach.

[Scott Selikoff]

There are a number of service wrappers, most open source I believe, that you can use to package a java application as a windows service. Google should be able to provide some examples.

[Jayesh Lalwani]

We use Java Service Wrapper and it works quite well

[Scott Selikoff]

I think I used this one before too, takes a little getting used to but works nicely.

[Ulas Ergin]

I use JSL (Java Service Launcher ) and am happy with it

[Vicky Pandya]

JSL doesn't support unix/linux.

[Paul Sturrock]

No, but then you asked for a "Windows Service" type application, so I don't think Ulas Ergin is out of place suggesting it.

If you want a cross platform approach to writing a daemon process that you can background (by whatever method your particular OS supports) you could just use a java.util.Timer.
[ January 26, 2006: Message edited by: Paul Sturrock ]