I am trying to start a program using "java -jar $filename" and have it fork itself and keep running in the background, like it is possible with other programming languages e.g. in python
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["Is it possible?" as a question](https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7273/2463) – President James K. Polk Oct 14 '22 at 21:47
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well fwiw i *am* trying to figure out if this is even possible – Dave Ankin Oct 14 '22 at 21:51
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2For windows - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68113/how-to-create-a-windows-service-from-java-app For Linux https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11203483/run-a-java-application-as-a-service-on-linux – Victor Gubin Oct 14 '22 at 21:51
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looks like it still relies on jsvc? at least i am finding code samples that leverage jsvc + apache commons daemon – Dave Ankin Oct 14 '22 at 22:07
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which means that java is not the entrypoint, jsvc is. i think the answer to my question is no.... – Dave Ankin Oct 14 '22 at 22:09
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The library which accomplishes this is org.kohsuke:akuma:1.10 on maven central
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