I want to have a long running process (running for days, or even weeks) and the user will be able to close the GUI application and keep the process running (in background).
I am writing in Java, and people have hinted at using Sockets to have a long running process that you can check a socket for (as suggested here Start Java program only if not already running), but I'm not sure that's exactly what I want.
The idea is similar to GIMPS (or primenet), users have long computation running, but they can open up GUI to view log of the process.
Any help is appreciated.
