We've hacked out a suitable application. Now it's time to take it to production. As Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long likes to say, production is the happiest place on earth.
The good ol' spring-boot-gradle-plugin has built-in hooks to handle that for us. By invoking Gradle's build task, it will insert itself into the build process, and create a JAR file.
$ ./gradlew clean build
:clean
:compileJava
:processResources
:classes
:findMainClass
:jar
:bootRepackage
:assemble
:compileTestJava
:processTestResources UP-TO-DATE
:testClasses
:test
... test output ...
:check
:build
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 10.946 secs
If we peek at the output, we'll find the original JAR file (non-FAT) along with ...
