How to run Java application at system startup on Windows/Linux/MacOS?

Question

How I can run Java application at system startup on Windows/Linux/MacOS?

Any implementation of JNA/JNI shall be welcome.

Answer 1

Take a look at http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org. It provides a wrapper for java applications to run under the various operating systems. You can use the community edition.

Answer 2

You can consider your application as a service under linux, and add a script that could start it under /etc/init.d (on most distributions, I think). You'll then have to make the needed links to the runlevel folders, to decide when to run your application. I think you can use chkconfig too

A basic example of script can be found here

I don't have most clues for the other two systems, however.