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How do you write a silently self-starting, long-running, time-triggered Java desktop application without registering it as a Windows service?

I'm trying to build a report-building tool (which has a UI written in JavaFX) that has the following features:
When the system (re-)boots, it should auto-start in the background (without showing the UI)
It should have an icon in the system tray
The UI should only show when the user clicks on the system tray icon
A report should be generated either once a day/week/month, at a specific time, automatically
It should "snooze/sleep" in the interim period and use minimal resources while it awaits the next trigger time
It should show a toast pop-up / Windows notification / whatever when a new report has been generated
(The bold ones are the real problems, the italics are maybe solvable--given some resources I found--and the un-formatted one I have a work-around for, namely to place it on in the Startup folder in the AppData folder of the users' machine.)
But the clincher is the following: due to my company's policies, I'm NOT allowed to build register it as a Windows service. Also, converting it into a web service, placing it on a server, and using Control-M (or a cron expression) are also off the table. (That's a long story for another day.) I'm not sure how to implement it and I've been stuck on this for a bit.
I've taken a look at Quartz, this other StackOverflow question, and some other resources on how to run the Java app in the background, but most resources tell me to add it as a Windows service and I keep hitting a brick wall. Also, I don't know how much of an effect the application would have on the users' machines if I ran the application in the background with the solutions mentioned in the other StackOverflow answer. I need to have a minimal processing footprint in the interim period.
I'm also unsure of how to package the application as an EXE. For now, I'm going to turn it into an executable JAR. (Any help on this would also be welcome.)
I'm open to any suggestions and ideas and even other resources to look at for further reading. Anything to help me out here is welcome.

Execute a jar file ever Windows initialize and after the user logon (Not as a Service) that call a process with a GUI

I have a jar file and I wanted to run this file as a service. When this .jar executes, it opens another program that I want to be able to see it GUI. But note: only the second program needs a GUI (the .jar not). I open this second program using the following:
ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder(cmdCommand);
processBuilder.redirectErrorStream(true);
Process process = processBuilder.start();
Searching about this issue I saw that if I performed my .jar file as a service, I could not see the process started GUI because services executing in another desktop since Windows Vista. To create a service, I used Java Service Wrapper. On this tutorial, they teach how to use the wrapper.ntservice.interactive configuration to make for the service to display a GUI. They alert too:
"Starting with Windows Vista and Server 2008, Microsoft changed the way services are allowed to interact with the desktop. They decided that for security reasons, services are now only allowed to show their GUI on a special desktop that only the service can interact with. Unfortunately, this makes interactive features pretty much useless. We are looking into ways to display a GUI in a different way. Stay tuned.
If you do a search on the Internet with keywords of "Interactive services dialog Vista", you will find a number of references to the way Windows will display a dialog on the user desktop whenever a service has updated into GUI on the services desktop.
There are some important security reasons why this was disabled in Windows. But if you really need to reenable this functionality, it is possible to do so by editing the Windows Registry and setting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows\NoInteractiveServices to 0. Always be very careful editing the registry as you can easily mess up your system by changing the wrong values."
I've been tried to configuration the NoInteractiveServices to 0, but yet do not work.
So, how can I execute a .jar program when windows initialize and the user do the login, and still be able to see the GUI of my opened process?

Java service wrapper to create service for Java UI application

I have created a Java application which needs to run as a service. For service wrapper I tried using tanuki and other wrapper softwares.
Now, my application does run as a service - however, it runs as a service under SYSTEM and not under currently logged in user.
My application has a UI, which does not show when the application is running as a service. I doubt that this has happened because the service is running under SYSTEM and not under currently logged in user.
When I run the application (without installing it as a service), the UI does show up and I could see the java process running under the current user's id, whereas it runs under SYSTEM when installed as a service.
Now, there is nothing to my application if there is no UI. I need to application to run as a service when the system boots up and the UI needs to show up as well.
Has anyone tried to do what I am doing here and has faced a similar issue. If so, how did you go about resolving it?
Is there a different wrapper service that I could use and not have this issue.
Tanuki's documentation does explain setting a java application as a service, but does not talk about a java applicaiton with a UI and running it under the currently logged in user.
Update
Just so that folks here could get a bit more idea as to what is it that I am trying to accomplish - the behavior that I am trying to have with my app is similar to how Dropbox or Yahoo Messenger or any other software has which starts with Windows boot and continues to run in the background, allowing the users to interact with it using the system tray icon. So basically all of this has been built in Java/Swing. Now when it has come to deployment of the app - I can run it standalone but running the jar file or by creating and running an executable wrapper for it. However, I want the software to start with Windows boot and continue to run as a service in the background, while allowing the user to make changes and interact with it via lets say bringing up the UI from a system tray icon that it sets.
As of now, it does run as a service successfully. It performs all the actions that it ideally should - there just is no system tray icon to bring up the UI and make changes to its configuration.
Update - 2
Ok.. I tried advanced installer and it does wrap up everything for me to generate an exe installer for windows. Now all I need is to auto-start the software. Can anyone help me with this? I don't see an option in Advanced installer to automatically have the program add itself up in the auto-start.
Link to tanuki's doc http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/faq.html

Rohan,
Please take a look at the following page:
http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/prop-ntservice-interactive.html
You will need to mark the Service as interactive and then run as the SYSTEM user in order to get your GUI to show up on the first logged in desktop.
The problem is that Microsoft changed what services are allowed to do starting with Windows 2008 and Vista. This means that starting with these versions, the GUI will always show up on a sandboxed desktop which the user will need to switch over to.
If you want to show a GUI on all desktops, in all versions of Windows, you will need to run the JVM within the desktop.
Cheers,
Leif

I wanted to comment on your question, but I don't have enough reputation to do it. So I'm misusing the answer function now.
I have a similar problem. I used the tanuki wrapper for a while now on a Windows XP machine and the Swing GUI was shown to all users who logged in.
Now I migrated to Windows 2008 Server and configured the current version of the tanuki wrapper like this:
wrapper.ntservice.interactive=true
wrapper.ntservice.hide_console=true
(see documentation here and here)
The Windows service runs under the LOCAL SYSTEM account.
But the GUI is still not shown. Did you find any solution to the problem?

Don't think you should have a UI with a service. Put it in the startup group instead ?
What's does the UI and application do?

Pinning a Java executable (with launch4j) to the Windows 7 taskbar

After spending half a day searching and trying, I'm finally giving up.
I have a java application of which I create a runnable jar (to include any other libs and just have a single jar file). With launch4j and the runnable jar I'm making an executable "MyApp.exe".
The executable ist working fine, but I want to pin it to my windows 7 taskbar. For now, I just have the taskbar entry "Close window".
After reading and implementing the following solutions with JNA
Pinning a Java application to the Windows 7 taskbar
Using JNA to get/set application identifier
my Application displays it's "Application User Model ID" correctly in the gui (just for testing purpose).
BUT: my program is shown as "javaw.exe" in the Task Manager and I still can't pin it to the taskbar, even though I set the launch4j option "custom process name and XP style manifest".
Background information: I'm working with a windows 7 admin account and I don't want the app the require admin rights.
Anyways, if I start the app "as administrator" from the context menu and confirm the UAC message, I can now pin to the taskbar. BUT: even though I set the "Application User Model ID" properly, windows still wants to pin "javaw.exe", even though my program is now shown as "MyApp.exe" in the TaskManager.
I'm totaly confused. But I'm obviously not the only one, having these issues.
=> See the last comments to Gregory Pakosz answer in Using JNA to get/set application identifier
Final questions:
Gregory Pakosz way with JNA to set the "Application User Model ID" ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/1928830/1128689 ) is working for me. But still, windows recognizes my app as an instance of "javaw.exe". What else do I have to do?
Did maybe some windows or java update break something here?
Do I really have to run my app with elevated user rights? I really don't want to...
Are there some more options in launch4j which I have to set?
Do I have to use a manifest file in launch4j?

I got this working by creating an Exe from a runnable jar with the help of JSmooth
.Pinned it to the taskbar, and ran it with no problems.
Hope this helps

No problem with winrun4j either, which is newer and easier to use than Jsmooth

The root cause: javaw is registered as a Host process (in Windows' registry). The shortcut behaviour is probably caused by following (source: Application User Model IDs (AppUserModelIDs))
Application-Defined and System-Defined AppUserModelIDs
Some applications do not declare an explicit AppUserModelID. They are
optional. In that case, the system uses a series of heuristics to
assign an internal AppUserModelID.
[...]
if the process was launched through a shortcut that contains launch
arguments (usually the target content to host as the "application"),
the system can determine identity and the application can be pinned
and relaunched.
About the Host Process behaviour:
Registering an Application as a Host Process
An application can set
the IsHostApp registry entry to cause that executable's process to be
considered a host process by the taskbar. This affects its grouping
and default Jump List entries.

Are you looking for this, which I used in my application to show the running Java application on windows taskbar..
SystemTray systemTray = new SystemTray(composite, parent.getShell(), parent.getDisplay(), "My Application");
systemTray.makeSystemTray();

Launching a java application from an URI

I'm looking for a way to launch my java application when using a custom URI.
Something in the lines of
movie://superman/
This should start my application and display information about the movie "Superman".
if friends of my have my application installed as well, i can send them that URI so they can click on it.
I used to do this back in the days in VB6 but i lost my code and forgot how to do it.
OS: windows
Any help would be appreciated.

The actual mechanism to implement this is operating-system dependent (and thus not accessible from pure Java).
The general idea is to register your application as the protocol handler for the protocol in question.
On Windows you do that by writing the appropriate registry keys

..should start my application and display information about the movie "Superman".
If you can distribute your app. from a web site, you might take a slightly different approach:
Launch the app. using Java Web Start.
In the JWS launch file (JNLP format), add a custom file extension, e.g. xuri.
Send the user an clickthis.xuri file containing the URI of interest.
When the JWS app. registered to that file type is invoked, it will be passed -open clickthis.xuri as arguments to the main(String[]).
Proceed from there..
This approach should work on any OS with 'modern' Java installed. JWS was available since 1.2, & became co-bundled with the JRE around 1.4.2.