I was happy with using a trivial /etc/init.d service wrapper that just calls "java -jar <myapp>.jar" on startup and does a process kill for shutdown.
It seems silly to use a more heavy-weight tool that actually requires a license purchase. There are tons of conversations on this exact topic of Java service wrappers on stackexhange On Monday, February 10, 2014 4:34:42 AM UTC-6, rakesh mailgroups wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > I think the idea of an embedded container inside the stack a la Play > is what Spring boot is trying to emulate. Its irrelevant whether it is > jetty or tomcat. > > What I need is an easy way to do : java -jar <myapp>.jar > > Cheers > > Rakesh > > On 10 February 2014 10:13, Kevin Wright <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > The best advice is probably to "use Jetty" > > > > It seems to have much better support for running as an embedded > container, > > I've never seen a solution with Tomcat that didn't look cumbersome. > > > > You might also investigate if you *truly* need a container. I'm > guessing > > that your dependency on Spring demands one, but an increasing number of > > frameworks and libraries (such as play) are happily doing away with > > containers altogether. This is certainly the trend in the Scala > ecosystem, > > but I'd be awfully surprised if the trickle down effect didn't mean that > > similar ideas weren't also being adopted by someone somewhere in pure > Java. > > > > > > > > On 10 February 2014 10:05, Rakesh <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> decided to do something different and deploy my app with an embedded > >> Tomcat instance. > >> > >> The new Spring Boot project actively encourages this and it is very > >> nice from a purely dev perspective not having to configure a container > >> externally to test things. > >> > >> However, I deploy to Unix (AWS has their own variant) and am stumped > >> with getting the app to automatically start. > >> > >> Googling around has uncovered some very complicated solutions, > >> including an apache project to achieve this. > >> > >> Any advice? Does it have to be so hard? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Rakesh > >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Java Posse" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:>. > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
