Running java jar file as a daemon and specify pid path

Question

I'm running CentOS 6 and I have a jar file I'd like to execute with java and have it run in the background. I plan on executing this command from a script, and I also would like to specify the path at which the pid file is output. How can I do all this?

Answer 1

You can use Java Service(Commons Daemon) from apache. Instead of implementing main , your class to execute must provide method for the service execution ( start , stop , etc.)