java-exec.md

Instruction

This instruction fully tested under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit, Java 1.8.0_25 64-bit.

Create a stub.sh file with this content:

#!/bin/sh
MYSELF=`which "$0" 2>/dev/null`
[ $? -gt 0 -a -f "$0" ] && MYSELF="./$0"
java=java
if test -n "$JAVA_HOME"; then
    java="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
fi
exec "$java" $java_args -jar $MYSELF "$@"
exit 1

Pack your project into a runnable uberjar and run:

cat stub.sh app.jar > app && chmod +x app

It seems that the created app is steel a valid jar.