How to run application as Windows Service

I have developed an appl using Java Swing. I want to run the application as Windows Service. How can I do that? Along with that, I also want to start Tomcat Server as a separate Windows service. Kindly Suggest some solutino to this!!

There is a version of Tomcat that runs as a service. (1.4 for windows?)
As for your own app, there are several free service launchers around (Google for java service etc.) Not sure about a service with a user interface though - services are usually headless. You may have to paritiotn your app into a headless service and a user interface app which communicaes by RMI, sockets or some other RPC mechanism.

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(based on Alexandria web site version). However, if i
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variable), the service does not work. It only works
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