Application as Service is described as 'Advanced system tool which lets you run any application as Windows Service. You can easily configure Application as Service using its intuitive GUI interface or command line configurator directly from your software' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are seven alternatives to Application as Service for Windows. The best Application as Service alternative is NSSM - The Non-Sucking Service Manager, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Application as Service are WinSW, Always Up, Shawl and FireDaemon.
nssm is a service helper which doesn't suck. srvany and other service helper programs suck because they don't handle failure of the application running as a service. If you use such a program you may see a service listed as started when in fact the application has died.
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AlwaysUp is the true set-it-and-forget-it way to run your mission-critical Windows application 24/7, unattended, starting it at boot and monitoring it to ensure that it is always running, even if it crashes, hangs, or fails.
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FireDaemon runs any application program executable or script as a Windows service when your computer starts up restarting it the application crashes or fails.
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This tool requires that .NET Framework 2.0 be already installed on your computer. If you do not have .NET Framework 2.0 this tool will display a message and not run. You probably already have the .NET Framework 2.
Daemon Master is a software which makes it possible to create and manage a Windows-service from any program. (Alpha)
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