This is an excellent post, which not only shows you how to solve the startup problem, but illustrate the use of startup scripts.
http://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/541044/auto-start-boot
Key Points.
- To creste "service type" scripts you need to create the bash script on /etc/init.d/NAME_OF_SCRIPT
- To have this script run on server boot, you need to run update-rc.d NAME_OF_SCRIPT defaults