[JDEV] Does the windows jabberd server run as a service?

[Mike Prince]

> As far as deployment is concerned, you logon as 
> administrator, install the service, then logoff. The service 
> then no longer needs to be running in anyone's logon and it 
> will magically fire back up whenever the system is rebooted. 
> Ya, you have to force an account that it will logon to when 
> it starts up. It's a service. This is how they work in 
> windows land. If microsoft can get the bloated pig monster 
> that is IIS running as a service then I think something like 
> jabberd should be pretty straight forward. The jabber server 
> should run as a service under windows. Period.

>From what I remember, Windows services require the app/service to
implement a special API.  So unless JabberD's windows build does this,
it will either require the additional code, or a wrapper program.

> >From the development standpoint: Since the server is is pretty much a
> console application turning it into a bona fide service 
> should be a cakewalk.
> 
> How all this fits into the cygwin library, however, is a 
> mystery that I will probably be messing around with shorty.

Cygwin probably provides a nice path, but certainly not the only
approach.

Thanks,

Mike