Is it possible run XWiki as a Windows Service??
Version 3.2 by Vincent Massol on 2012/03/28
XWiki is just a web application that runs in a Servlet Container. Thus, "running XWiki as a Windows Service" means running the Container as a Windows Service.
Almost all Servlet Containers support running as a Service.
Here are some tools that can run any Java application as a Service:
And here are some links to run a specific container as a Service:
- Jetty 7 and also the Jetty Windows Service Wrapper
- Tomcat 7
For how to install XWiki into a Servlet Container, see the WAR Installation Guide.