Hi Phil The application is a TCP server application that has some minimal windows interface (that need not be displayed). We have a client who wants it to run without a user logging on. We were kind of hoping for a simple way of running a standard app as a service. We are currently porting the application (client and server) from Dbase to Firebird so we really don't have the time to do major changes to the current version. I found
http://www.activeplus.com/us/products/smill/ which looks good but seems very expensive for what we want. Rob Martin Software Engineer phone 03 377 0495 fax 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Scadden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [DUG] Windows services > > We have a large existing application (server) that one of our users would > > like to run as a service. Is there an easy way to achieve this? > > Depends. if it is an application without user interfaces, that will move > happily into a services Execute thread, then yes. You need to consider > things like privileges required, and make sure it can run from local hard > drive (getting services to see network devices is fun - NOT). > > If there is a user-interface component, then really need to separate that > out into separate app that can communicate with the server. Not so > simple. > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Phil Scadden, Senior Scientist. > Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences > 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand > Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
