In order to make it easier to daemonize the ShinyProxy jar with SysVinit or Systemd, we could build the jar to be directly executable by adding a configuration setting in pom.xml:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<executable>true</executable>
</configuration>
</plugin>
This would make it easy to create a systemd unit configuration like this:
[Unit]
Description=ShinyProxy
After=syslog.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/path/to/shinyproxy.jar
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
This would enable automatic startup on reboot and allow the user to start/status/stop the service with the ‘service’ command. I’m by no means a Spring or Java expert, so I don’t know if there is a downside to this approach, but I think it would be a nice feature.