Java Windows Service
There is a very good article today on DevX on Converting a Java Application into a Windows Service. Several packages exist to help with this (Java Service Wrapper is the first one that comes to mind). I still think it is way too complicated. Who wants to install Visual Studio to fire up the C++ compiler to get this to work? Native windows integration is still killing Java. And most of us just want simple things. I want to double click a .java file and have just one eclipse start versus a separate eclipse process for each file.