java install tomcat as service

I'm developing a installation wizard to install an application on linux, and as part of installation installs tomcat and set it as service开发者_高级运维 to start automatically when system boots. Can someone help me to figure it out? (installing tomcat on linux and settingJava it as service ONLY and ONLY through Java code)

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Here's an idea but bear in mind you can do most of the following in Java but not all of it in Java:

• in most Linux distros the services are in /etc/init.d -- though the path can vary and also be /etc/rc.d/init.d -- so you need to check which one applies. Typically you would copy in there a shell script which starts your service.
• However, the shell script itself is normally distro dependent, but you can prepare multiple shell scripts -- one per distro and figure out which distribution it is by launching the command uname -a and parse the output of that to determine the distro and as such which script to copy to /etc/init.d. You will need to give read/execute permissions on this script but this can be done by launching chmod
• you then would typically symlink this script to /etc/rc2.d/ or /etc/rc3.d/ -- you can symlink it in both; however, you can't do symlinking in Java -- you will need to employ some native library;
• or alternatively simply copy your script in those directories as well; though this does mean that now you have 3 points of configuration (/etc/init.d/, /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc3.d/) which is not ideal
• or another idea is to launch ln -s /etc/init.d/yourscript /etc/rc2.d/name to make the symlink

This does mean though that your installation will only work on Linux. Hope this helps.