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Article donated by: Hernan Cunico
This article will show you how to configure Apache Geronimo v1.0 to run as a MS Windows service. A Java Service Wrapper (JSW) will be required as an additional software to achieve this configuration. Using a JSW gives you some additional "control" on the service you are configuring such as the ability to ping the service and take action if the service is down.

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To set up Apache Geronimo v1.0 to run as a MS Windows service you will certainly need a Java Service Wrapper. For this example we used Java Service Wrapper 3.2.0 available for download at the following URL:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wrapper/^{Image Removed}

For this example we are also using Apache Geronimo v1.0 running on Windows XP. You can download Apache Geronimo binaries from the following URL:

http://geronimo.apache.org/downloads.html^{Image Removed}

Installing Apache Geronimo

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Once you see in the log the Geronimo Application Server started message you are all set to go. You can open a Web broser and access the Geronimo Administration Console by pointing it to the following URL:

http://localhost:8080/console^{Image Removed}