Overview
Apache Commons Daemon is made of 2 parts. One written in C that makes the interface to the operating system and the other in Java that provides the Daemon API. Both Win32 and UNIX like platforms are supported, but for this article I will only focus on the former and show you how to use Procrun to run your java application as a windows service.
Prerequisites
If you want to run the sample application, you will need Java 6 and Maven installed. GIT is also recommended.
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