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.