Using org.apache.service to create Java Daemons

[Aaron Brashears <aaron@lns.com>]

I'm researching writing a daemon in Java. Surprisingly, there seems to
be very little documentation around the net for doing this. After
searching for a while, and failing to find anything, I remembered that
tomcat behaves much like a daemon and probalby has implemented this
functionality. Much as I suspected, they've implemented a set of
classes in the org.apache.service package which depends on some native
code to handle the dirty work.

I was hoping that someone here has actual experience (Stephan, are you
there?) using this code, and knows if it works ok. I'll probably end
up pouring over the source and joining the tomcat mailing list over
this issue, but I was hoping someone could tell me right off the bat
if it's a good starting point.

Thanks