When we build applications using Spring Boot, there are a couple of situations that are possible:
- We would want to run the applications in place without building a JAR or a WAR
- We would want to build a JAR and a WAR for later deployment
The spring-boot-maven-plugin dependency provides capabilities for both of the preceding situations. The following snippet shows how we can configure spring-boot-maven-plugin in an application:
<build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId> </plugin> </plugins> </build>
The spring-boot-maven-plugin dependency provides several goals for a Spring Boot application. The most popular goal is run (this ...
