hi, i would like to know if there are other methods of starting up orion other than java -jar orion.jar. That is can it be started as a service. I am posting this query wrt the Windows OS. I am exploring methods of remotely starting up and shutting down Orion and hence this query. Cheers, Ramanathan ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com