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How to automatically start 2 Java jars on AWS EC2?

I'm learning to deploy Spring Boot apps on AWS EC2. And I know how to automate app launch, when I start the EC2 instance, I don't need to manually use the command java -jar java-service.jar, I just add this command in the /etc/rc.local file and that is all. But I have 2 microservice, and I want to start both of them automatically, but if I try to add both commands in the /etc/rc.local it's not working, only the first service will start, the second service will not start.
So I have the commands added like this:
And after I start the EC2 instance only the first service is started:
Thank you!

I am not a unix expert, but I see the only issue in running 2 java commands from terminal is that unless the first command returns, the next command is not executed. So, I think the solution would be run the 1st command in some interactive mode so that the other commands can be executed simultaneously.
There are ways in unix shell to run a command in background. I found this useful link - https://www.maketecheasier.com/run-bash-commands-background-linux/
In bash terminal, a command can be made to run in background by appending it with &. So, I think you should be able to start both jars if you do something like -
java -jar /home/ec2-user/first.jar &
java -jar /home/ec2-user/second.jar

I recommend to use Systemd.
Create a Systemd unit file for every microservice, save it in /etc/systemd/system/my-app.service. Something like that:
[Unit]
Description=My Java app
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/my-app-env
WorkingDirectory=/my/app/home
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java $JAVA_OPTS -jar my-app.jar
KillMode=process
User=my-app-user
Restart=on-failure
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Then, run:
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now my-app
After that, you can use:
systemctl status my-app
systemctl stop my-app
systemctl start my-app

Another solution is to bundle your jars into Docker images. This of course requires Docker runtime and adds an overhead, but it also has some benefits:
Complete separation of jar files. Easily use different java versions.
No need to worry about differences of local and ec2 environment.
Easily scale to 3 or more jars.
Use Docker Cli to build and start containers. Works great in a Devops Pipeline.
You can read here to learn how to create Spring Boot Docker images. After you build an image. You start it like this.:
docker run -p 8080:8080 springio/gs-spring-boot-docker
You can run as many docker run commands you need, one after another.

I am not sure which system you are using in starting application:
For linux base system, you can use crontab to schedule the task when the server reboot.
Follow this steps:
Download crontab
#apt-get install cron
Edit the file file to enable the task
crontab -e
(Choose Vim or nano to edit the task)
Add this code to your server
#reboot /usr/bin/java -jar XXXXX.jar
Save your file
Check the result
crontab -l
#systemctl status cron
This method works in my Debian system. For more details, you can refer to
How to automatically run program on Linux startup

If you are running from bash, then join two jar commands with "&" like below.
java -jar /home/ec2-user/first.jar&java -jar /home/ec2-user/second.jar

coupon service
Run the command 'java -jar /home/ec2-user/coupon-service-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.JAR'
Press CTRL+Z, type bg, press Enter, type disown, press Enter.
product service
Run the command 'java -jar /home/ec2-user/product-service-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.JAR'
Press CTRL+Z, type bg, press Enter, type disown, press Enter.
NOTE: Both services should have different ports.

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 &

How to open java program in other linux computer without terminal holding?

I have written a java program with jar file. The java program is to update status of linux server so it need to keep running, but the linux server is in data center, so I need to remote to server to open the program. I use ssh to login linux server. Use command of "java -jar file.jar" to run the program.
However, the java program of the linux server will close if I close the terminal in my computer. Since I cannot keep opening my computer, I wanna know how to open the java programming without holding my computer terminal.

you need to use nohup to keep the program running after you log out.:
server:~name$> nohup java -jar file.jar &
this will keep your program running

Two ways
One
nohup java -jar file.jar &
Another
java -jar file.jar &
In both cases your process will go in background however the process will terminate in the second approach when shell terminates in second case.

If this program is intended to be running on all your machines for monitoring purposes, you should be running it as a service from your server's init system (systemd for most systems these days). You can use the Java Service Wrapper or jsvc or write your own init script.

Another solution apart from the proposed one:
screen -d -m java -jar your.jar
You will then have a detached screen with your java command in it. List with screen -l, reattach with screen -D -RR <screenid_obtained_via_screen_-ls>

Cannot locate Java home

I'm writing an application that leverages jsvc to start up a Java service as a daemon. I need to use something like jsvc because my application utilizes ports under 1024 and yet I'd really like to not run it as root so that created files are owned by another user. I'd also like to keep dependencies and configuration to a minimum so that all the client needs is a JVM and the jsvc binary installed.
However, it seems that jsvc has one major catch; it can't detect the home folder of Java on a given Unix operating system, which is quite frustrating:
$ ./startup.sh
Cannot locate Java home
I have been able to work around the issue on Ubuntu at least by manually setting the JVM home directory:
jsvc ... -home /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/ ...
Is there any way to determine the Java home directory dynamically from a Bash script so I can make this work across most Unixes/Linuxes? I'd be able to sleep much better at night doing something like:
JAVA_HOME="$( ... )"
jsvc ... -home "$JAVA_HOME" ...
...rather than hard-coding for each individual operating system. Is there a way that, given a java binary, I can find the home directory of its JVM/JRE?

Not sure if this works across *nixes, but found this solution:
JAVA_HOME="$( readlink -f "$( which java )" | sed "s:bin/.*$::" )"
I've tested it on Ubuntu and it works, however it does not work for OSX.

My solution was compiling the native linux source as the main jsvc page says in
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon//jsvc.html
Here is my step by step procedure
Download www.fightrice.com/mirrors/apache/commons/daemon/source/commons-daemon-1.0.13-src.tar.gz
Once you extract the file then go to ...../commons-daemon-1.0.13-src/src/native/unix
in terminal as a root do the following:
$ support/buildconf.sh
$ ./configure --with-java=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java
$ make
test generated jsvc binary app
$ ./jsvc -help
It works! cleanly.

Use dirname and which commands to find Java's bin directory:
echo `dirname \`which java\``
JAVA_HOME=`dirname \`which java\``
... Only works if Java is already on the $PATH.

One other way is :
type -p java
Expect this to return the correct JAVA installation folder.

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