Have you had experience with running a jar file using a command line, wrapped in a Windows service?
I'm trying to find a way to run a jar file without being logged into the machine, and since it allows command shell, I was wondering if it's a good idea.
Thanks!
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I'm trying to run Associated Press's Web Feeds Manager, which is basically a jar file that can be run when logged in by double clicking it.
I'd like to run the same file but without being logged in to the machine. In their manual (http://wfm.ap.org/admin/content/help/Running_Agent_on_a_Remote_Server.htm) they write how to do that, using a commandline parameter.
Basically I'd like the jar to run as a Windows service, regardless of who's logged in, but Googling it showed it was problematic.
Have you had experience with remotely running jar files? What are the pitfalls?
Thanks!
On a google search, I came across this article -
Running Jar Applications as a Windows Service
It mentions about open source Java Service Wrapper project from Tanukisoftware.org for accomplishing this task.
Note: I've not used this personally.
If you are not interested in having the service started/stopped at boot/shutdown, but you just want the program to be started manually and keep running after logout, here is what you do:
$ nohup java -jar foobar.jar > foobar.log 2>&1 &
which means: start my foobar.jar (java -jar) and keep it running after I logout (nohup) redirect stdout to foobar.log (>) and also the stderr (2>&1), and make it running in background (& at the end).
Instead, if you are interested in installing a "service" in your linux box, there are many options, depending on what distribution you are using.
The most common are upstart (for ubuntu) and System V init scripts (Redhat or others). Also cron can be used to start/stop services at startup/shutdown.
You can find an example of installing a java app (hudson) on an init system here, or doing the same thing with upstart. Or, as I said, cron could be an option.
On Windows, there is Java Service Wrapper. And not much more.
For windows Java Service Wrapper is a better choice
My favourite is the upstart on linux, but it is Ubuntu only.
On Windows I see many alternatives according to this forum.
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I want to deploy a a project to ec2. It was modify in Intellij which used MAVEN. It work perfect in Intellij. Below is the configuration of Intellij.
I have tried command line like java, javac. These kind of comment lines are all failed. I am wondering there must some way to convert Intellij configuration to command lines. I was relying too much on IDE. XD. Now I am regreted.
EC2 is the amazon cloud service for instances. If you aren't very experienced with it - the easiest you can do is to hire a machine with your fav operating system - for example Windows and use remote desktop to log in it and just do your normal IDE setup and run your app. You will have your app running on your instance and it will be working, even it is done the hard way. I will get downvotes for that, but it will work as a Swiss watch.
It depends from the kind of EC2 instance you're using.
For me would be simpler if it was a Linux instance.
I'll connect via ssh and git clone my project there from my bitbucket/github repository.
Then I'll use Maven, and there are many different options to run your project with Maven.
As suggested in the comments you could use the exec plugin.
But even in this way you'll have a list of problems to overcame.
For example your linux instance does not came with an preinstalled Java Runtime.
You have to install at least Java and Maven (choose ubuntu distro, so you can do easily with a package manager like apt-get).
Or, for example, another not easy task is connect via ssh to a Linux instance.
AWS generates a key.pem file that you have to use in order to successfully connect to your instance.
ssh -i .ssh/your-key-file.pem username#your-ec2-instance-address
And again, AWS does not tell you the name of the default user you must use to connect to your EC2 instance (if you choose ubuntu distro the username is ubuntu).
And again, when you save your-key-file.pem in your computer it must have the right permission
-rw-------# 1 freedev staff 1692 Apr 21 09:46 /Users/freedev/.ssh/your-key-file.pem
or your ssh client wont read it.
...looking back it was really a long way make a deploy on a EC2 instance.
I have solved it by myself.
Use mvn package to generated jar file for maven project.
nohup java xx.jar debug.xml & use this to run jar in shell. By using this command line, when exit (abort remote connection), the process / command will not get killed.
Command line jcmd is used to check running process pid.
I have a requirement where I need to develop application that reads TCP/IP Socket. I successfully made the program as Java program with No GUI means as soon as program runs it starts listening to the Socket and gets the response with the help of Netbeans IDE. Now as per my requirement i have to start execution of this program as soon as Linux system Booted.
Actually I am very novice in Java and Linux Platform, so have few doubts..
Is my Socket Program with no GUI is fine to be run as per my requirement.
How can I write script to run jar on Linux Boot up, I got to know. init.d is meant for this.
Ideally you should create a service wrapper for your java application and then make this service run on startup example here.
Use
sudo update-rc.d mytestserv defaults to run your service wrapper on startup on Ubuntu
So two things you'll need to do:
First create a small shell script to start your java program from a terminal. As you have packaged as a jar have a look at this, specifically the JAR Files as Applications section.
This may be sufficient: (although you'll want to use the full path to Java)
#!/bin/bash
java -jar path_to_jar_file
You should be able to run your script and successfully start your program.
Once you've got it starting from a script you can use standard linux tools to start the script. Either putting it in /etc/rc.local, or as you're using Ubuntu, use update-rc.d to start it on boot. See here for a very simple example of using update-rc.d
Hope this helps,
Will
How do I run a Java .jar file as a Windows service on a Windows 2008 server? I have a jar file called SomeJavaFile.jar located under the C:\SomeDirectory directory on a Windows Server 2008 box. I usually just run this jar manually in the command line with: java –cp SomeJavaFile.jar com.ctg.SomeJavaFile and I let it run 24/7.
The problem with our Windows Server is if it restarts I need to run it as a service so it will automatically start as a service upon startup, because our processing for Vistakon runs 24/7. I have Googled around and tried to use a service wrapper and the sc.exe command to create the service.
I put the wrapper service.exe in the C:\SomeDirectory\. I use the following command to create it: sc.exe SomeJavaService binPath= “C:\SomeDirectory\service.exe \”java –jar C:\SomeDirectory\SomeJavaFile.jar\”” type= own start= auto error= ignore. This creates the SomeJavaService service correctly but when I try to start it I get an error that says the service on Local Computer started then stopped.
Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs. Do I need to alter my sc.exe command to have the exact previous working command line maybe, by adding in the com.ctg.SomeJavaFile? So should I change This jar should just run in the background and constantly poll/ping the C:/poll directory then if there is data present it processes the data and sends an export file to another directory.
I have used this same .jar file for years successfully and it hasn't changed, but I cannot get it to run as a Windows service. This is the site I use to get the service wrapper http://code.google.com/p/simple-service-wrapper/. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
"winsw" is the standalone version of the Windows Service installer shipping with the Glassfish Java EE reference implementation.
Works well, but is not a fully polished product - I have used it for exactly this purpose for a couple of years. Requires .NET in some recent version on the Windows machine.
https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw
I think that the best bet would be wrap your java app with Procrun of Apache Commons Daemon .
Procrun is a set of applications that allow Windows users to wrap
(mostly) Java applications (e.g. Tomcat) as a Windows service.
The service can be set to automatically start when the machine boots
and will continue to run with no user logged onto the machine.
As per my analysis,
The Idle Solution will be writing a VC++ (.net) Windows Service creation program to launch the .bat (that triggers the jar file)/.exe as a System service with all the required call back methods to SCM.
Note : 1. Wrapping the process with sc.exe / srvany.exe would not work as it does not have any call back process to the SCM (Service Control Manager). 2. And java service Wrapper is a third party API (many are LGPL licensed).
If you start your Java code from commandline by using java -j some.jar does it run until you terminate the program, or does it stop by itself?
There needs to be a NON-Deamon Thread, that is running all the time. A JVM will terminate, if there is no thread running, that is not flagged as daemon.
If you have a little budget, buy an installer tool. I use instll4j. With that tool, you can create service launcher and install them during instllation.
The following solution is working fine for me having OpenFire Connection Manager (which is a jar file) running as service on Windows Server.
Download and install the Non-Sucking Service Manager
I didn't use the batch made by OpenFire team, because it didn't work for me (dependencies not found error...) So, make a batch file with the following code :
#ECHO OFF
cd /D "E:\connection_manager\lib"
java -jar startup.jar
and save it as cm_startup.bat in the bin folder of connection manager.
After that you can create the service with NSSM.
So, open a cmd.exe and run the following command :
nssm install ConnManager "E:\connection_manager\lib\cm_startup.bat"
.
Doc & examples
More documentation and examples for the Non-Sucking Service Manager here : https://nssm.cc/usage Actually NSSM as a lot of options available.
Here is a more complexe example :
nssm install solr "%JavaExe%" -Dsolr.solr.home="\"%CD%\solr"\"
-Djetty.home="\"%CD%"\" -Djetty.logs="\"%CD%\logs"\" -cp
"\"%CD%\lib\*.jar"\";"\"%CD%\start.jar"\" -jar "\"%CD%\start.jar"\"
I am trying to create service for Windows.
I have .bat script that launches jetty with solr:
cd ../jetty
java -Djetty.home="C:/Webs/lrt-archyvas/jetty" -Djava.ext.dirs="C:/Webs/lrt-archyvas/parts/jetty-download/lib;C:/Webs/lrt-archyvas/parts/jetty-download/lib/jsp" -jar C:/Webs/lrt-archyvas/parts/jetty-download/start.jar C:/Webs/lrt-archyvas/jetty/etc/jetty.xml C:/Webs/lrt-archyvas/jetty/etc/jetty-deploy.xml C:/Webs/lrt-archyvas/jetty/etc/jetty-webapps.xml OPTIONS=Server,jmx,resources,websocket,ext,plus,annotations
I want to create service and in that case I want to use this http://drupal.org/node/1359598 tutorial.
Problem is that I can't use cd and go into jetty directory. I have to set it in parameters but I am unable to.
When I run this script from other directory I get the following:
2012-03-02 13:04:51.493:INFO::jetty-7.3.1.v20110307
2012-03-02 13:04:51.511:INFO::Deployment monitor C:\Webs\lrt-archyvas\bin\webapp
s at interval 1
2012-03-02 13:04:51.538:INFO::Started SelectChannelConnector#0.0.0.0:8080
It uses "C:\Webs\lrt-archyvas\bin\" (cwd) as jetty.home to load webapps. And I set it to C:/Webs/lrt-archyvas/jetty.
How can I override this?
You can set jetty.home on the java commandline with -Djetty.home="C:\foo"
(you also ought to use windows paths for that to work I suspect, hence the backslashes)
the jetty start mechanism should pick this setting up and operate from there
I should add that since this is jetty 7 apparently being used there ought to be a start.ini file somewhere in there that you should be able to specify the options and xml files on. You can use the --dry-run option to have the actual option string that is being used.
If you experiment with --dry-run you should be able to iron out the precise string to drop into that service window for things to work. That ought to take some of the tedious process out of determining the correct string.
cheers
I fear not being very helpful ...
Could you give us more details ?
What kind of software are you trying to use to set your application as a Windows service.
Don't know if you can afford to use this product but it's a very good one :
tutorial article
download page
Have you edited the start.config Jetty file ? I guess it may be confused by a wrong location of the jar file (jetty home is computed like this in Jetty)....
HTH
Jerome
You can try using procrun from Apache Commons Daemon project. Following post has lot of details.
Running Jetty 7 as Windows Service
You can be easily run as a Windows service Solr can be used to exewrap.
Solr Windows Service all-in-one packages are also distributed.
http://exewrap.sourceforge.jp/solr/
I have a Java application that needs to implement installation features of making a JAR launch on startup.
I can do this on Window by entering a REG file into the registry, but how can I do this on UNIX platforms? Linux and Mac if the methods are different.
Do Linux and Mac have system startup folders?
Remember that I need to do this programmatically not through system preferences or anything like that.
On Linux, the classic way would be through adding a script in the appropriate /etc/rcN.d/ directory (where N is a number 0-6 representing the 'run level'). I'm not sure whether that's still the recommended way, but it usually is still supported. This would also work with minor variations for other mainstream Unix variants (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX).
On Mac, you have to work harder. The files /etc/rc.common, /etc/rc.imaging and /etc/rc.netboot are related, but there are no /etc/rcN.d directories. There's also a script rc and another rc.local. Typing man rc reveals:
DESCRIPTION
rc.local is now unsupported and has been replaced with launchd(8), which bootstraps itself via the launchctl(1) bootstrap subcommand to read in launchd(8) jobs from the standard locations.
SEE ALSO
launchd(8), launchctl(1)
So, you should investigate launchctl and launchd, particularly launchctl.
This is how I would do it on ubuntu.
First create a bash script to run the java app, similar to.
#!/bin/bash
java -jar "helloworld.jar"
and save it, in this case called 'HELLOWORLD' in /etc/init.d.
Need to make the script executable so need to run
chmod +x HELLOWORLD
Finally to make it run on start up
update-rc.d HELLOWORLD defaults
On Macs I think its launchd, and on linux its init.d. They are config files.