Have you looked at Apache Commons Daemon: http://commons.apache.org/daemon/ It has both Windows and Unix stubs.
There are also a couple of Maven plugin that build your app for deployment on different platforms. Mac OS X: http://mojo.codehaus.org/osxappbundle-maven-plugin/ UNIX: http://mojo.codehaus.org/unix/ Windows: (Launch4j plugin) http://www.illuminatedcomputing.com/technae/launch4j/ HTH Mark On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Kevin Wong <[email protected]>wrote: > > I agree. It's about time they addressed the deployment part of the > development lifecycle for services/daemons. > > I also use JSW, and it's been pretty good, but they went GPL (to their > everlasting shame). YAJSW (http://yajsw.sourceforge.net/) looks > interesting, but it seems immature. > > On Oct 30, 9:56 am, Marc E <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alan, > > I'm using tanuki's wrapper as well, for applications that don't run > > in a container. I've been wondering the same thing: whether there's a > > better way of doing this. Thanks for posting the question and I hope > > others chime in, if better solutions do exist. > > > > On Oct 29, 9:44 pm, Alan Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Alan Kent wrote: > > > > A pity its not an executable shipped with the standard Java > > > > distribution. Makes it that bit easier getting Java apps deployed > onto > > > > Windows servers. > > > > > I should have probably explained - the whole rest of the system is > > > platform neutral (all written in Java). Having to include a Wrapper > > > executable for Windows, shell scripts for Unix, etc makes deployment > > > that little bit harder. It would be lovely if all the OS dependent > > > stuff was supplied by Java instead (which has platform specific > > > downloads already) instead of having to do platform specific > application > > > builds. > > > > > Alan > > > -- Mark Fortner blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jroller/ideafactory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
