Running a web-deployed application as a service

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by Craig Shearer >> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:31:00 GMT

Hello All

We have developed a web-deployed application and we'd like to deploy it on our customer's web server. What we want to do is have the JADE Web Application Monitor run as an NT Service so that it starts automatically etc. when the machine gets rebooted. Also, it'd be nice not to have the Web Application Monitor windows appearing all over the server desktop.

Has anyone done this - ie. what piece of software do I need to run a JADE App as an NT Service? Note also that the JADE Server and the web server are different machines.

Any help would be appreciated.

Craig.

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by Sean Dick >> Sun, 22 Aug 1999 7:59:52 GMT

The only way I know how to do this a present is to use the srvany.exe program from the NT Resource Kit.

This application allows you to run just about any program as a system service and still let it think it has a GUI environment to talk to (turn on the interactive desktop option).

I have tried this with the Jade Thin Client server components and found one small problem. You may be able to get arround this in an application though.

When you log off the workstation the app has to ignore the Windows CloseDown events. the Jade Thin Client goes away when the log off occurs.