Note: tested on Ubuntu. Replace YOUR_APP_NAME with your application's name and ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_YOUR_APP with absolute path to your application.
First go to /etc/init.d/ and create file YOUR_APP_NAME with this contents:
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: YOUR_APP_NAME
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Should-Start: $named
# Should-Stop: $named
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start Tomcat YOUR_APP_NAME.
# Description: Start the Tomcat YOUR_APP_NAME servlet engine.
### END INIT INFO
SERVICE_NAME=YOUR_APP_NAME
PATH_TO_JAR=/ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_YOUR_APP/YOUR_APP_NAME.jar
OPTS="-Xmx256m"
PID_PATH_NAME=/tmp/YOUR_APP_NAME-pid
case $1 in
start)
echo "Starting $SERVICE_NAME ..."
if [ ! -f $PID_PATH_NAME ]; then
nohup java -jar $OPTS $PATH_TO_JAR /tmp 2>> /dev/null >> /dev/null &
echo $! > $PID_PATH_NAME
echo "$SERVICE_NAME started ..."
else
echo "$SERVICE_NAME is already running ..."
fi
;;
stop)
if [ -f $PID_PATH_NAME ]; then
PID=$(cat $PID_PATH_NAME);
echo "$SERVICE_NAME stoping ..."
kill $PID;
echo "$SERVICE_NAME stopped ..."
rm $PID_PATH_NAME
else
echo "$SERVICE_NAME is not running ..."
fi
;;
restart)
if [ -f $PID_PATH_NAME ]; then
PID=$(cat $PID_PATH_NAME);
echo "$SERVICE_NAME stopping ...";
kill $PID;
echo "$SERVICE_NAME stopped ...";
rm $PID_PATH_NAME
echo "$SERVICE_NAME starting ..."
nohup java -jar $PATH_TO_JAR /tmp 2>> /dev/null >> /dev/null &
echo $! > $PID_PATH_NAME
echo "$SERVICE_NAME started ..."
else
echo "$SERVICE_NAME is not running ..."
fi
;;
esac
Next just call:
update-rc.d YOUR_APP_NAME defaults