Startup and Shutdown scripts for a java application

Problem:  I have a java application that needs to run as a background process in Linux. The process needs to be started and shutdown with shell scripts.

Approach: We can use nohup utility in linux to run Java process in background. After starting the process write the process id into a file. kill the process during shutdown using process id.

Startup Script:

 
#Start java application as a background process
nohup java -jar app.jar &

#write the process id to file
echo $! > PID

Shutdown Script:

 
#kills the background  java process
kill -9   `cat PID`

#clean up the process ID file
rm -rf PID