Starting selenium server from java in the background
Well, it wasn't that hard (at least on windows). I used to start selenium server like this:
java -jar selenium-server-xxx.jar <options>To start it without console I just use javaw:
javaw -jar selenium-server-xxx.jar <options>
Create a windows .bat file and run the .bat file to start the selenium server. You can also include your test classes and dependencies.
eg:
java -cp ".;.\supportlibraries\junit4.11.jar;.\supportlibraries\poi-3.8-20120326.jar;D:\downloads\Selenium 2.0\selenium-server-standalone-2.45.0.jar" org.junit.runner.JUnitCore [classname]