Goals Overview

The Spring Boot Plugin has the following goals.

• spring-boot:run runs your Spring Boot application.
• spring-boot:repackage repackages your jar/war to be executable.
• spring-boot:start and spring-boot:stop to manage the lifecycle of your Spring Boot application (i.e. for integration tests).
• spring-boot:build-info generates build information that can be used by the Actuator.

Usage

General instructions on how to use the Spring Boot Plugin can be found on the usage page. Some more specific use cases are described in the examples given below.

In case you still have questions regarding the plugin's usage, please have a look at the existing stack overflow issue. If you still don't get an answer, feel free to create a new thread with the #spring-boot tag.

If you feel like the plugin is missing a feature or has a defect, you can fill a feature request or bug report in our issue tracker.

Examples

To provide you with better understanding of some usages of Spring Boot, you can take a look into the following examples:

• Custom repackage classifier
• Local repackaged artifact
• Exclude a dependency
• Debug the application
• Random port for integration tests
• Specify active profiles
• Generate build information