If you're using Ubuntu and have "Upstart" (http://upstart.ubuntu.com/) you can try this:
Create /var/init/yourservice.conf
with the following content
description "Your Java Service"
author "You"
start on runlevel [3]
stop on shutdown
expect fork
script
cd /web
java -jar server.jar >/var/log/yourservice.log 2>&1
emit yourservice_running
end script
Now you can issue the service yourservice start and service yourservice stop commands. You can tail /var/log/yourservice.log to verify that it's working.
If you just want to run your jar from the console without it hogging the console window, you can just do:
java -jar /web/server.jar > /var/log/yourservice.log 2>&1