One minor thought to add to this discussion: If the main reason for adding Derby as a service is so it will start running whenever Windows starts, Windows Task Scheduler can be used for this purpose, and I found it much easier to use that Apache commons Daemon.
_________________________________________ John I. Moore, Jr. SoftMoore Consulting -----Original Message----- From: Kristian Waagan [mailto:kristwaa.apa...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 8:41 AM To: Derby Discussion Subject: Re: Star Derby as a service Den 23.09.14 13:37, skrev Alessandro Manzoni: > On Derby wiki pages > (http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyWindowsService) I found how to > install Derby as a service. > It's made by Tanuki wrapper, but I installed succesfully myself the > service using Apache commons Daemon > (http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/index.html). > Are there some particular reasons not to use commons Daemon? > > Hi Alessandro, Not that I'm aware of, just two different ways to achive the same thing. Feel free to add a section on how to accomplish the task with the Apache Commons Daemon. Regards, -- Kristian