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I have to build Java daemon process that once starts will always be working (and listening to an open socket) in Linux, Windows and Mac.
I saw a few solutions on the web, but didn’t find anything consistent and widely used. What are developers using for such task?
Simplest way to do it is to create batch file(win)/shell script(linux) and invoke that in inittab (linux) or windows startup. That’s makes life easier. In that batch/shell file, simply call java binary with parameters
java background/daemon/service cross platform best practices