I’m in the same situation, so far I learned when the app is closed the service get closed also because they are in a one thread, so the service should be on another thread in order fot it not to be closed, look into that and look into keeping the service alive with alarm manager … Read more
Of course it is possible to restart a Java application. The following method shows a way to restart a Java application: public void restartApplication() { final String javaBin = System.getProperty(“java.home”) + File.separator + “bin” + File.separator + “java”; final File currentJar = new File(MyClassInTheJar.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().toURI()); /* is it a jar file? */ if(!currentJar.getName().endsWith(“.jar”)) return; /* Build … Read more