If nothing else helps, try to think of a slightly different approach (if you can, of course), e.g.:
- There is a plenty of free/non-free software which does monitoring, including Windows service monitoring (e.g. nagios, Zabbix, etc.). These monitors typically have open API where your Java app could integrate into in a number of different ways.
- If you have the control over depending service application, expose another, different way for your Java application to check (e.g. run a dummy listener on a port, create a file, etc.). Windows services aren't a cross-platform thing therefore is not something you would expect to be supported anytime soon.
