Start a detached background process in PowerShell

Question

I have a Java program which I would like to launch as a background process from a PowerShell script, similar to the way a daemon runs on Linux. The PowerShell script needs

Answer 1

Use jobs for this:

Start-Job -ScriptBlock {
  & java -jar MyProgram.jar >console.out 2>console.err
}

Another option would be Start-Process:

Start-Process java -ArgumentList '-jar', 'MyProgram.jar' `
  -RedirectStandardOutput '.\console.out' -RedirectStandardError '.\console.err'