Windows services using java

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The final trick is to use prunmgr. This the procrun manager and allows you to see the procrun operating parameters. To get started, go to your copy of prunmgr. See the original article here. Thanks for visiting DZone today,. Edit Profile. Sign Out View Profile. Over 2 million developers have joined DZone. Java Programs as Windows Services.

For this demo installation, I download WinSW. WinSW runs on Windows with. NET Framework 2. If you need to install the service on a Windows without. Copy the executable also into the folder where your jar resided. Rename the WinSW executable to any name you like. For this example, I rename it to testservice. Create an XML with the same base name: testservice. Make sure that the exe and XML file are located in the same folder. Check the executables path and arguments. This tells WinSW to shutdown the parent process first.

The service by default is installed with start mode Automatic. That means Windows starts the service when it boots up. You should see the default start page of Quarkus.