Introducing Spring Framework

Chapter 19 ■ Spring Boot, Simplifying Everything
Figure 19-2. http://localhost:8080/documents Exposes the RESTful Calls
Deploying MyDocuments
You saw how Spring Boot downloads the dependencies and how it will trigger the correct context depending on the
annotated classes. But what happens if you want to give this application to a friend, and this friend does not have
an Internet connection? Do you still need to add all of the dependencies? Fortunately, the spring-boot plug-in has
inherited some of the other plug-in tasks defined in the build.gradle and will take care of the dependencies.
Creating an Executable Jar
Let’s create a stand-alone application, an executable jar. Go to the book’s companion source code folder, and enter the
following command:
gradle :ch19:build
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