supercube1 / spring-boot-daemon

Showcase of deploying a Spring Boot application as a Windows Service

Spring Boot daemon

This project demonstrates how a Spring Boot application can be managed as a service.

Building

You need Maven to build the project and a simple mvn package at the root will do.

Unix

A unix distribution is generated automatically and uses jsvc. It is added for demonstration purpose only as Spring Boot 1.3.x has better support for this

Windows

The windows distribution uses winsw.

Warning

You need to install the .NET framework on the target machine first.

To install the sample application as a service, extract the distribution somewhere and open a shell with administrative rights in that directory. Then invoke the following command

$ spring-boot-daemon-sample.exe install

Note	spring-boot-daemon-sample is the identifier of the service. You can control that via Maven properties in the spring-boot-daemon-sample project.

Once the service has been installed, you can start it the usual way, that is:

$ net start spring-boot-daemon-sample

The logs are available in the logs directory of the distribution.

License

Spring Boot Daemon is Open Source software released under the Apache 2.0 license.