[Zope] Zope as a service on NT

[Lennart Regebro]

From: "Jeffrey Robinson" <Jeffrey.Robinson@MCICoach.com>
> I know on NT there are two ways to run Zope, either as a "standard"
program,
> or as a service.  For our needs, I believed the service would be ideal;
but
> according to one of the admins when Zope is run as a service it is a
"hack"
> that launches the "standard" way of running Zope.

Uhm. Thats basically what services are...
A program is a program is a program. A service is a program that runs
without a windows and writes things to the NT log instead of putting it into
a stdout windows. If there are more differencies I'm not aware of them (but
I haven't considered writing a service in 3 years, so maybe I forgot
something).

> Personally, I had assumed that it was running in the background like any
> other NT service (maybe simply because I never saw a console window).

I'm curious to what the difference would be. :-)
Services are no more "background" than anything else.