Question

I have written a little netty server application, packed in a jar file that I want to deploy on a linux server.

Since I have no professional experience with deploying java applications, I was wondering if it is enough to start the netty server by doing:

java -jar NettyServer.jar  NettyServer &

Obviously a script could be created to ensure the correct user starts the process etc., but is this the way (stand-alone) java services is being deployed?

It seems almost too easy, considering every other question/answer seems to mention some big hunky container-bean-glassfish-tomcat-whatnot (which I might consider later on if/when issues arise)

Answer 1

yes thats the way – no container needed!! I built a middleware (http://sourceforge.net/projects/serviceconnecto/) using netty as underlaying framework. It’s the way i start my server as well! Just verify the classpath is set correctly – meaning libraries are in correct place and the jar archive is correctly built.