Converting a Delphi application to run as a service - is it necessary?

Question

I have a delphi app that logs data from various places and writes the data to a file. The app has quite an extensive GUI to allow display of the data, configuration of the

Answer 1

There are commercial (and free) solutions like Firedaemon, which will run (almost) any application as a service.

On a sidenote, it shouldn't really be hard to separate logic and user interface - you should've done that already when you developed the application. Just because Delphi makes it easy to write business logic in the code behind associated with the user interface, that doesn't mean you should really do it. Have a look at the presentation pattern's at Martin Fowler's site.