Java as Windows Service

Apache commons-daemon

1. commons-daemon project. See Tomcat "bin\service.bat install" for full sample of how to use the commons-daemon project.

Tomcat

1. Set JAVA_HOME before running this
2. Make sure you're in a cmd.exe with admin privs
3. tomcat\bin> service install MyApp
4. Results in service called "Apache Tomcat 8.0 MyApp"

Mongo DB

1. Create a log directory
2. Create a mongodb.cfg in your db root with the following content
   1. logpath=C:\devp\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2.2.1\log\mongo.log
   2. dbpath=C:\devp\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2.2.1\data\db
3. Run mongod with --config and --install option (must have admin privs)
   1. C:\devp\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2.2.1>C:\devp\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2.2.1\bin\mongod.exe --config C:\devp\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2.2.1\mongodb.cfg --install
4. > net start MongoDB
5. Results in service "MongoDB"