How to specify a runnable jar to use tomcat's lib for dependencies

What I have done to get this working is on the linux side to start the java runable class another way by specifying the classpath this will give the class you are trying to run the ability to first check the folders that you specify. So in my example instead of executing my app on the linux box with the following :

nohup java -jar /usr/local/P6/StockListShunter/StockListShunter.jar &

I did the following and specified the Class path lib that java should check for .jar file dependencies :

nohup java -classpath :/usr/mylib1/*:/usr/StockListShunter_lib/*:/usr/share/lib/*:  stockListShunter.Shunter &

Notice I specified 3 libraries java should check when running my runable class, mylib1,StockListShunter_lib and lib.

After you specified the classpath you will see you need to specify your java class witch will be your main method class. In my example it is stockListShunter.Shunter where stockListShunter is my package name.

Just take note that you should make sure that the class you are trying to excecute is included in one of the jar files that you specified in the classpath otherwise it wont find the class and you will get an error : Error: Could not find or load main class stockListShunter.Shunter

So when you run the command the process will be started, my program is in a loop so the process will be alive until I kill it. If your program should be alive you can confirm it is running by running the following command.

ps aux | grep stockListShunter.Shunter

Where stockListShunter.Shunter is your main class name. This should display all the processes where the command has a stockListShunter.Shunter in it.

If you want to end the process like mine that's in a loop you can run the following command.

pkill -f 'java.*stockListShunter.Shunter'

Again where stockListShunter.Shunter is your main class name. This should kill your java process.

Hope this could help some one in the future.