How to create an executable jar from spring boot project?

Spring boot maven plugin is used to generate an UBER jar (by combining all the dependent jars)

Step 1: Add spring-boot-maven-plugin to pom.xml.

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>repackage</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Step 2: Add below statement to pom.xml. This statement tells that I would like to export this application as jar file.

<packaging>jar</packaging>

If you want to export the application as war file mention below statement.

<packaging>war</packaging>

Step 3: Go to the directory where pom.xml is located and execute below commmand to generate UBER jar file.

mvn package

Find the below working application.

HomeController.java

package com.sample.app.controller;

import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@RestController
public class HomeController {

    @RequestMapping("/")
    public String homePage() {
        return "Welcome to Spring boot Application Development";
    }

}

App.java

package com.sample.app;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class App {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(App.class, args);
    }

}

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>springbootMisc</groupId>
    <artifactId>springbootMisc</artifactId>
    <version>1</version>

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.1.6.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>

    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <dependencies>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>


    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>repackage</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

Total project structure looks like below.

Generate UBER jar file

Right click on project.

Run As -> Run Configurations…

Mention ‘package’ in goals section and click on Run button.

It generates a jar file in project target directory.

$ls *jar

springbootMisc-1.jar

Run the jar file by executing the command ‘java -jar {jarFile}’

$java -jar springbootMisc-1.jar
  .   ____          _            __ _ _
 /\\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __  __ _ \ \ \ \
( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \
 \\/  ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| |  ) ) ) )
  '  |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / /
 =========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/
 :: Spring Boot ::        (v2.1.6.RELEASE)

2019-07-19 09:03:53.610  INFO 40838 --- [           main] com.sample.app.App                       : Starting App v1 on C02X902SJGH5 with PID 40838 (/Users/harikrishnagurram/Documents/EclipseWorkSpaces/Learnings/springbootMisc/target/springbootMisc-1.jar started by harikrishnagurram in /Users/harikrishnagurram/Documents/EclipseWorkSpaces/Learnings/springbootMisc/target)
2019-07-19 09:03:53.613  INFO 40838 --- [           main] com.sample.app.App                       : No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default
2019-07-19 09:03:54.543  INFO 40838 --- [           main] o.s.b.w.embedded.tomcat.TomcatWebServer  : Tomcat initialized with port(s): 8080 (http)
2019-07-19 09:03:54.581  INFO 40838 --- [           main] o.apache.catalina.core.StandardService   : Starting service [Tomcat]
2019-07-19 09:03:54.581  INFO 40838 --- [           main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine  : Starting Servlet engine: [Apache Tomcat/9.0.21]
2019-07-19 09:03:54.695  INFO 40838 --- [           main] o.a.c.c.C.[Tomcat].[localhost].[/]       : Initializing Spring embedded WebApplicationContext
2019-07-19 09:03:54.695  INFO 40838 --- [           main] o.s.web.context.ContextLoader            : Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 1042 ms
2019-07-19 09:03:54.914  INFO 40838 --- [           main] o.s.s.concurrent.ThreadPoolTaskExecutor  : Initializing ExecutorService 'applicationTaskExecutor'
2019-07-19 09:03:55.117  INFO 40838 --- [           main] o.s.b.w.embedded.tomcat.TomcatWebServer  : Tomcat started on port(s): 8080 (http) with context path ''
2019-07-19 09:03:55.121  INFO 40838 --- [           main] com.sample.app.App                       : Started App in 1.925 seconds (JVM running for 2.346)

Open the url ‘http://localhost:8080/’ in browser, you can see below screen.

You can download complete working application from this link.

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