I have a software developer that has produced an online booking system for me, very basically it uses an SQL database and then the clients use a javascript applett, this all resides on a win2k server.
There is, however an applicaton that needs tobe constantly running, if it stops then clients won’t be able to make bookings.
At the moment it is an application thet you start and then iconise. I was wondering if it was better running as a service, and it is bad development on hte part of the software vendor, or whether there is no benefit to having it run as a service.
To my mind I would prefer to have it as a service as when I need to log onto the server as the admin to perform updates or any other maintenance work the application will stop!
Can anyone give any thoughts on this