Cannot connect to Indesign Server process

Question

We have Indesign Server CS 5.5 (with all patches installed) running inside a Virtual Machine. Our application (c#) also runs in a virtual machine with full admin priv.
Only 1 instance of Indesign Server is configured (using the MMC snap in) and uses the configuration name test (-configuration test) set in the command line arguments.
InDesignServer.exe is started by the service InDesignServerService.
The problem is that the service starts InDesignServer.exe with an unknown configuration name....so our application cannot connect to it. It should be using the configuration name set using the MMC snap in (-configuration test in this case). I also tried specifying the configuration name in the service startup parameters (using services.msc)...that did not work either. \
IndesignServerService DOES create the configuration name folder in C:\ProgramData\Adobe\InDesign Server\Version 7.5\en_US\ but it just doesn't register the configuration name in the Running Objects Table so our application cannot use it.
If we manually started InDesignServer.exe from command line using: InDesignServer.exe -configuration test, our application can connect to it. If we start it manually using command line, the configuration name is registered in the Running Objects Table.
How can we fix this so the service starts InDesignServer.exe and registers the configuration name in the running objects table?
The code we use to connect to the InDesignServer is the same one in the adobe documentation:
string instanceName = "configuration_noport";
dynamic app = (System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.BindToMoniker(instanceName));
It only works if we start it manually from command line....it does not work if we let the service start it.

Answer 1

Now try to execute the compile class from the command line; let us say the class is inside c:\tmp now make a directory inside the tmp and called it lib
copy the jar file which contains MYSQL driver into lib
on the command line on the current directory ( c:\tmp) type
java -cp ./lib/mysql-connector.jar ConnectTest
The PATH env. variable has nothing to do with the jar file on the classpath; the path allows you to execute program from any command line directory if the program is on the path
CLASSPATH. Specifying where to search for additional libraries in Windows is easily done by seeting the environment variable CLASSPATH, which Java uses to see where it should find Java programs and libraries but never seen any success with it. So the best thing is to explicityl mention it on the command line ( jar dependecies)
Regards,
Alan Mehio
Lodon,UK