jpackage and launcher-as-service parameter

[Alexey Semenyuk]

Hi Tobias,

OS-specific means are used to manage services. You can find details in 
https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8275062 CSR

- Alexey

On 10/21/2022 2:51 PM, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:
>
> I read the documentation for jpackage and found the 
> |--launcher-as-service |option. The documentation states: "Request to 
> create an installer that will register the main application launcher 
> as a background service-type application." But that is everything i 
> could find.
>
> How is this supposed to work? From my understanding each service 
> provides a mechanism to be started and stopped.
>
> I assume that the starting mechanism is the typical main(...) method 
> and not some implementation of a "Service" interface.
>
> But how does the stopping work and how is a service supposed to do an 
> orderly shutdown?
>
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