Here’s a quick guide for setting Jetty 7 up as a Windows service. It depends on Apache Commons Daemon for installation and configuration.

Note: This solution is not required when using Jetty 6. It includes its own Win32Wrapper .

The following tiny scrips can be used for setting up the service. After the service is installed, the most convenient way to manage it is to start ‘Monitor service’ which gives you a gui for configuring options.

rem Install service
<path-to-commons-daemon>\prunsrv.exe //IS//Lift ^
  --DisplayName="Lift" ^
  --Install=<path-to-commons-daemon>\prunsrv.exe ^
  --StartMode=jvm

rem Update service
rem  - using 64-bit server version of JVM
<path-to-commons-daemon>\prunsrv.exe //US//Lift ^
  --Jvm="c:\program files\java\jre6\bin\server\jvm.dll" ^
  --Environment=jetty.port=80;jetty.host=<host-ip> ^
  --Classpath=%CLASSPATH%;<path-to-jetty>\start.jar ^
  --StartParams="--daemon" ^
  --StopParams="--stop" ^
  --StartClass=org.eclipse.jetty.start.Main ^
  --StartPath=<path-to-jetty> ^
  --StopClass=org.eclipse.jetty.start.Main ^
  --StopPath=<pathto-jetty> ^
  --LogPath=<path-to-logs>

rem Monitor service
<path-to-commons-daemon>\prunmgr.exe //MS//Lift

rem Uninstall service
<path-to-commons-daemon>\prunsrv.exe //DS//Lift

rem Start service
<path-to-commons-daemon>\prunsrv.exe //TS//Lift

rem Stop service
<path-to-commons-daemon>\prunsrv.exe //SS//Lift

See http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html for all scripting options.