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How to keep running java aplication on aws?

I am new to Java. I have hapi fhir server running on AWS by cloning this repository (https://github.com/hapifhir/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-starter)
I run my server with follwing command: "sudo mvn -e jetty:run"
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My Problem:
As soon as I log out of AWS, my server stops. When I am logged in to my AWS instance via the .pem file, AWS instance running with ubuntu 18.04 LTS with nginx server.
Thanks

The ideal approach to execute or setup a java application on AWS is to run it as a daemon by setting up systemd script or init in linux.
In your case the application stops as soon as you close the terminal, because you are starting it in the terminal without the nohup command, when the terminal is closed the application is also stopped since the controlling thread is stopped. If you just want to launch the application on a separate background thread without going through the hassle of actually setting it up as a service in linux , you can use the nohup command (setting up a systemd to register the java application as a service is the preferred approach) :
nohup java -jar yourjarName &

run it as daemon:
"sudo mvn -e jetty:run &"
The & makes the command run in the background.
From man bash:
If a command is terminated by the control operator &, the shell
executes the command in the background in a subshell. The shell does
not wait for the command to finish, and the return status is 0.

Adding Java jar as Ubuntu service

I am trying to add my java jar application to Ubuntu as service so that when the Ubuntu server is restarted I dont need to manually run the jar command to run my application. At present I have to run this cmd on the terminal
java -jar myapp.jar -conf conf.json.
I came accross this link which would have solved my problem but for some reason the service is not running when i run the service as described in that website.
http://www.jcgonzalez.com/ubuntu-16-java-service-wrapper-example
Can someone please help me!!

I think your bash script should have "nohup" like this:
nohup java -jar myapp.jar -conf conf.json &

Java command not working in docker container

I am trying to run java with docker image in gitlab.
Here is my docker file.
FROM java:latest
FROM perl
COPY . /
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/perl", "/myapp_entrypoint.pl"]
I was able to build docker image successfully and run perl commands but java commands are not working.
My application is a linux application and I am running 'java -version'. I am not getting any output completely blank output for version command.
What would be the issue? Do I need to add anything related linux as I am running 'java -version' as linux command?

You don't specify what OS you're running in your container, but the main issue is that you're blowing away your Java layer with another FROM directive.
From the documentation, emphasis mine:
Each FROM instruction clears any state created by previous instructions.
So I'd espouse a solution in which I install Perl (if I really needed to) after having my base Java image.
However, if you use the base OpenJDK images, Perl comes preinstalled, so that will simplify your Dockerfile significantly.
FROM openjdk:latest
COPY . /
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/perl", "/myapp_entrypoint.pl"]

Starting a java swing process on boot using Upstart -- No X11 DISPLAY variable was set

I have a runnable jar file produced from clojure code that I am running on an embedded system (udoo - http://www.udoo.org/), which is running a version of Ubuntu for its OS (udoobuntu - http://www.udoo.org/udoobuntu-the-official-udoo-linux-operating-system/).
The jar file contains a clojure library I wrote, that includes a some Java swing stuff.
Running the jar manually via the command line using:
sudo java -jar myjar.jar
works fine. The sudo is needed for certain usb device permissions.
My problem arises when I try to start the jar using an upstart script called testjob. The relevant part of /etc/init/testjob.conf looks like:
start on (desktop-session-start)
expect fork
script
exec ./home/ubuntu/start > /home/ubuntu/boot-jar.log 2>&1 &
end script
Where /home/ubuntu/start is the following shell script:
#!/bin/sh
sudo java -jar /home/ubuntu/myjar.jar
exit 0
When this runs, either manually via:
sudo start testjob
or automatically by rebooting the system, I get the following output to the log file:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
... <bunch of meaningless classloading stuff>
Caused by: java.awt.HeadlessException:
No X11 DISPLAY variable was set, but this program performed an operation which requires it.
at sun.awt.HeadlessToolkit.getMenuShortcutKeyMask(HeadlessToolkit.java:236)
at seesaw.keystroke$preprocess_descriptor.invoke(keystroke.clj:25)
at seesaw.keystroke$keystroke.invoke(keystroke.clj:50)
at seesaw.keystroke$keystroke.invoke(keystroke.clj:49)
at seesaw.keymap$map_key.doInvoke(keymap.clj:107)
at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:445)
at seesaw.widgets.log_window$log_window.doInvoke(log_window.clj:88)
at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:457)
at physicloud.utils__init.load(Unknown Source)
at physicloud.utils__init.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
... 52 more
I don't actually make any UI calls, but the run fails on classloading of the library. I know that a simple fix would be to remove the Java Swing code from the library, but the library is generalized to allow ui output to capable machines, and therefore I am looking for a workaround. It doesn't make sense to me why the jar will run via java -jar but not in the script.
I tried different cases for the upstart script's "start on" condition, all of which produced the same result.
I tried setting the $DISPLAY environment variable in the upstart script before executing the jar, but to no avail.
I also tried scheduling the start script using crontab #reboot, but the error was the same.
Anyone have suggestions?

You can pass -Djava.awt.headless=true to java to allow running non-GUI applications that happen to depend on some UI libraries.
For example,
java -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar something.jar

Run a java program in backend

Hi all i want to run a java application as backend process.that is like tomcat server.For that i had developed one application.and made one class as main class and calling from one script file .i.e(startup.sh) file.in startup.sh file i was calling one class.that is MainMethodClass.In main method class i had written my business logic.when i am running this app in linux server from using putty is is working until putty window is not closed.As closed after putty window it is also stopped.but i need to run this app even i closed also.How can i achieve this.

Nohup will detach a process you run from your current console and let it continue when you close the terminal. Run something like this.
nohup java -jar my.jar &
By default it will pipe the output to nohup.out, so if you don't want that you could try:
nohup java -jar my.jar > /dev/null &

This problem is not related to java, its actually something related to the way linux operates.
You need to do following:
nohup <your_application_command> &
Note the "nohup" and "&" at start and end respectively.

You should be able to do something like:
nohup java -jar MyApplication.jar &

On a linux machine you can create a service for your jar( executable jar like spring boot )
# Set the Application as Service
ln -s $APP_BASE/bin/$APP_NAME.jar /etc/init.d/$APP_NAME
echo "Starting the application as service"
service $APP_NAME start