HI,

I have JIRA installed on my server, it always starts up on windows start and has the tomcat window running to allow JIRA to work. I want to use JIRA as a service and avoid getting a window comming up.
Please do tell me how to use JIRA as a service and avoid losing the existing data on the machine.

The following is the startup.bat file
@echo off
if "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" setlocal
rem ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
rem Start script for the CATALINA Server
rem
rem $Id: startup.bat,v 1.4 2002/01/15 02:55:38 patrickl Exp $
rem ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
rem Guess CATALINA_HOME if not defined
if not "%CATALINA_HOME%" == "" goto gotHome
set CATALINA_HOME=.
if exist "%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\catalina.bat" goto okHome
set CATALINA_HOME=..
:gotHome
if exist "%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\catalina.bat" goto okHome
echo The CATALINA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
echo This environment variable is needed to run this program
goto end
:okHome
set EXECUTABLE=%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\catalina.bat
rem Check that target executable exists
if exist "%EXECUTABLE%" goto okExec
echo Cannot find %EXECUTABLE%
echo This file is needed to run this program
goto end
:okExec
rem Get remaining unshifted command line arguments and save them in the
set CMD_LINE_ARGS=
:setArgs
if ""%1""=="""" goto doneSetArgs
set CMD_LINE_ARGS=%CMD_LINE_ARGS% %1
shift
goto setArgs
:doneSetArgs
call "%EXECUTABLE%" start %CMD_LINE_ARGS%
:end

I have JIRA installed on C:\app\atlassian-jira-enterprise-3.0.3-standalone\bin

Thanks
Roshan