Run JAR as a Windows service [duplicate]

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I have a JAR file and I would like to register and run it as a Windows service. With a well-configured JAR and already registered JVM shutdown hooks it should not be a big work to do this.

I already have a JAR with external lib dir, I can start it with java -jar My.jar and stop with Ctrl+C.

I also checked JSL, JSmooth, and procrun from Apache with no working solution.

I would need a working solution with a good tutorial.

Update: I succeeded with both procrun (at last), and the manual .net service wrapper too... Here is the code for the procrun version of my install.bat:

set PR_PATH=%CD%
SET PR_SERVICE_NAME=MyService
SET PR_JAR=MyService.jar
SET START_CLASS=org.my.Main
SET START_METHOD=main
SET STOP_CLASS=java.lang.System
SET STOP_METHOD=exit
rem ; separated values
SET STOP_PARAMS=0
rem ; separated values
SET JVM_OPTIONS=-Dapp.home=%PR_PATH%
prunsrv.exe //IS//%PR_SERVICE_NAME% --Install="%PR_PATH%\prunsrv.exe" --Jvm=auto --Startup=auto --StartMode=jvm --StartClass=%START_CLASS% --StartMethod=%START_METHOD% --StopMode=jvm --StopClass=%STOP_CLASS% --StopMethod=%STOP_METHOD% ++StopParams=%STOP_PARAMS% --Classpath="%PR_PATH%\%PR_JAR%" --DisplayName="%PR_SERVICE_NAME%" ++JvmOptions=%JVM_OPTIONS%

I presume to

run this from the same directory where the jar and prunsrv.exe is
the jar has its working MANIFEST.MF
and you have shutdown hooks registered into JVM (for example with context.registerShutdownHook() in Spring)...
not using relative paths for files outside the jar (for example log4j should be used with log4j.appender.X.File=${app.home}/logs/my.log or something alike)

Thanks to the apache procrun team (http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon//procrun.html) and to marifnst (http://a089lp.wordpress.com/tag/procrun-tutorial/)

Update 2: a new good tutorial with winsv: https://dzone.com/articles/spring-boot-as-a-windows-service-in-5-minutes

Write your own service from these samples:

Into onStart you have to do CreateProcess( "java", "-jar", "MyJar.jar" ), keep its PID

Into onStop you have to kill by the PID

Try this java launcher

http://winrun4j.sourceforge.net/

free and open source

start service example at the end of the page

Gunnarr

You can use Java Service Wrapper

http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/download.jsp