How to make the Oracle Application Server 10g run as a Windows service

A problem that recently has been bugging the project I’m currently working on, was to make the Oracle Application Server 10g run as a service, so that it would be available without a user logging in and starting it up manually. We solved it with the use of an open source middleware project called JavaService, a pretty neat tool. Find below how.

Requirements:
Windows machine (the guide was tested with a vanilla Windows 2003 server installation)
Oracle Application Server 10g
The latest version (today 2.0.10) of JavaService

Actions:

Let’s say JavaService is unzipped to C:\JavaService-2.0.10
Then from the JavaService-2.0.10 directory execute:

	rem To install the service with name OAS:
	set ORACLE_HOME=C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1
	set CP=%ORACLE_HOME%\j2ee\home\oc4j.jar;%ORACLE_HOME%\jlib\startupconsole.jar;%ORACLE_HOME%\opmn\lib\optic.jar;%ORACLE_HOME%\lib\xmlparserv2.jar
	javaservice -install OAS %ORACLE_HOME%\jdk\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll -Djava.class.path=%CP% -DORACLE_HOME=%ORACLE_HOME% -start oracle.appserver.startupconsole.view.Runner -params start -stop oracle.appserver.startupconsole.view.Runner -params stop -current %ORACLE_HOME%\j2ee\home\ -description "Oracle Application Server Service"
	(in case the memory settings are not met (they are supposed to be taken from %ORACLE_HOME%\opmn\config\opmn.xml) add these 2 parameters
	-XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xmx256m right after the Java dll path)
	rem To uninstall the service with name OAS:
	javaservice -uninstall OAS
	rem To view the configuration for installed Java service with name OAS:
	javaservice -queryconfig OAS

view raw install service.bat hosted with ❤ by GitHub

Now the service OAS can be found among other services.

Should be also mentioned, that the Application Server better be stopped by the time you attempt to start the service.

Hope this helps.