[Wrapper-user] communicate to a wrapped service

[Barry A. <tit...@gm...>]

Hi All,

I am in the process of evaluating Java Service Wrapper for Windows and I 
am wondering if there is a built in way to communicate to a wrapped 
service?

I have some code that I need to run as a Windows service and I need to 
be able to communicate to it from another process and tell it to run. On 
Windows you have you have the ServiceBase.OnCustomCommand listener.

I have thought about different ways to communicate this event to the 
service. One way is programmatically pausing the service, ( "net pause 
<service name>" ) and continuing it when I need it to run. The problem 
with this is it needs to work for someone logged in as a regular "User", 
not just an admin. The service would have admin privileges, but the 
program may only have User privileges.

I also thought about communicating via ports, but I didn't know if there 
was some communication functionality already built in that I was just 
overlooking? Any thoughts on this?

Many thanks to you all.

-B