Starting Spring boot applications from script

Question

Using normal spring mvn commands, I can start a spring boot application from command line and terminate it with Control+c. I however have created a bunch of services which I

Answer 1

You could use a script to achieve this. For example a startup.sh may look like this. It will start the application and write the process id to /path/to/app/pid.file

#!/bin/bash
nohup java -jar /path/to/app/hello-world.jar > /path/to/log.txt 2>&1 &
echo $! > /path/to/app/pid.file

And a shutdown.sh may look like this.

#!/bin/bash
kill $(cat /path/to/app/pid.file)

You can find more detail in my post. https://springhow.com/start-stop-scripts-for-spring-boot-applications/