https://github.com/gchauvet/satellite

Satellite Toolkit
https://github.com/gchauvet/satellite

background-process daemon java linux service windows

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Satellite Toolkit

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gchauvet/satellite
• Owner: gchauvet
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-02-17T15:19:17.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-03-21T11:13:40.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-30T04:29:04.097Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: background-process, daemon, java, linux, service, windows
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.7 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# Satellite Toolkit

Satellite is a set of utilities and Java support classes for running Java applications as server processes.

Commonly known as 'daemon' processes in Unix terminology, on Windows they are called 'services'.

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## Requirements

Compilation process is performed under Linux. Cross-compilation fanboy :-)

* Gradle 4.4.x

* Java Development Kit >= 7

* Clang 5.x

* mingw-w64-x86-64-dev (gcc 5.x)

* libc6-dev-i386

## Satellite in action

Writing an independent OS background process become pretty simple. The first step is to implement a java interface who manage background process behaviors. The second step require `Phobos` or `Deimos` depending if you are under Windows or Linux. The Daemon behavior has been designed as the same manner as Windows service. Under Windows, only certain service state transitions are valid. The following diagram shows the valid transitions (credits to Microsoft) :



  



### Dependency

In your project, add the Satellite API dependency (Maven POM):

```xml

    io.zatarox.satellite

    satellite-api

    1.0.0-SNAPSHOT

    provided

```

### Core of the background process

This is the facade of your service. Attention : calls on these methods are synchronous.

```java

import io.zatarox.satellite.*;

public final class FooBackgroundProcess implements BackgroundProcess {

    @Override

    public void initialize(BackgroundContext dc) throws BackgroundException, Exception {

        System.err.println("Initialized");

    }

    @Override

    public void resume() throws Exception {

        System.err.println("Started...");

    }

    @Override

    public void pause() throws Exception {

        System.err.println("Stopped !");

    }

    @Override

    public void shutdown() {

        System.err.println("Destroyed");

    }

}

```

### Main jar assembly

Finally, add a manifest entry in your main jar (and dependency jars OFC).

```xml

  maven-jar-plugin

    3.0.2

        

        

            true

            

                io.zatarox.satellite.FooBackgroundProcess

            

        

    

```

### Sample

To a look to the sample project submodule to see how to get binary frontends from Gradle

## Inspiration

This project is based on Apache Commons Daemon.