chris derham wrote:
The first part (running programs which require a Window) usually doesn't,
because those programs are usually such that they do not work "as a
service". It is not usually only the fact that they need a console, but
they need a whole bunch of other environment which a Service does not
provide.
It will only work when the other program is specifically designed to work
that way.
For example, OpenOffice in "headless" mode works fine. But MS-Office
programs do not, and this mode of operation is explicitly indicated by
Microsoft as "not recommended and not supported".
So summarising discussion so far
1) services generally run headless with no interaction with desktop
2) you can run a service with interaction with desktop enabled
3) this doesn't work under Windows Server 2008 and later.
So questions to OP
a) did the link I sent help?
b) what programs are you trying to run that open windows on desktop?
c) what version of os are you running under?
I would add another one :
d) can you run instead Tomcat in a command window (via setup.bat), or is that
not possible ?
(I do this kind of thing under similar circumstances, using a virtual machine so that
there is no physical console accessible).
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