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The Frog
Hi Everyone,
I am hoping that someone can point me in the right direction as I keep
hitting my head against the wall with what seems to be a simple
problem.
I am using a batch file to launch a javaw app. The app sits quietly in
the background and waits for tasks to be sent to it, and returns the
results. From the batch it works fine, but it requires that someone
actually double click it to run the app.
What I would like to be able to do, is to launch the application at
system startup before a user logs in. The batch file currently used
does some processing to build the classpath statements and so on
before actually starting javaw. (If anyone is interested the
application is an open source project from Pentaho (www.pentaho.com)
called PDI (Pentaho Data Integration / Kettle), specifically the Carte
'slave' software).
I am hoping not to have to turn this into a Windows (XP) service, and
somehow launch the .bat file at system start. I have tried using group
policy and setting the startup scripts, and likewise directly in the
windows registry. So far I have had absolutely no luck at all.
If anyone has any ideas about this I would be most appreciative in
hearing them.
Cheers
The Frog
I am hoping that someone can point me in the right direction as I keep
hitting my head against the wall with what seems to be a simple
problem.
I am using a batch file to launch a javaw app. The app sits quietly in
the background and waits for tasks to be sent to it, and returns the
results. From the batch it works fine, but it requires that someone
actually double click it to run the app.
What I would like to be able to do, is to launch the application at
system startup before a user logs in. The batch file currently used
does some processing to build the classpath statements and so on
before actually starting javaw. (If anyone is interested the
application is an open source project from Pentaho (www.pentaho.com)
called PDI (Pentaho Data Integration / Kettle), specifically the Carte
'slave' software).
I am hoping not to have to turn this into a Windows (XP) service, and
somehow launch the .bat file at system start. I have tried using group
policy and setting the startup scripts, and likewise directly in the
windows registry. So far I have had absolutely no luck at all.
If anyone has any ideas about this I would be most appreciative in
hearing them.
Cheers
The Frog