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
> >
>


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