Mountain Lion

[Martin Naef]

On 19.02.2012 16:36, Peter Korsten wrote:
> The point is start-up. A Java process that does backend-y stuff is
> started from a command line or startup script, and therefore always hogs
> the terminal (or script) it was started from. You can always apply some
> flags to redirect output and error streams, and start it in the
> background, but it would be much more elegant to have it start as a daemon.

Why not make it a Windows app that doesn't need a terminal? Starting 
those from a script should be non-blocking (they certainly behave that 
way from the shell).

Martin