Introducing Spring Framework

Chapter 19 ■ Spring Boot, Simplifying Everything
The above command will jar up all the dependencies needed in one big jar. The jar will be created in the
build/libs folder and it will be named according to the jar definition in the build.gradle (see Listing 19-1). Now
you can run the Spring Boot application with
java -jar ch19-spring-boot-0.1.0.jar
and you should get the same output as shown in Figure 19-1 with the RESTful features.
Creating a WAR File
What happens if you need to create a WAR file because maybe you already have an application server like tcServer or
Tomcat? You will need to make some small modifications. Let’s start first with the build.gradle file. You just need
to add the war plug-in, replace the jar section for the war section, and add the configurations section. Listing 19-5
shows the new build.gradle for creating a WAR file.
Listing 19-5. build.gradle
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
mavenCentral()
maven {
url "http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot"
url 'http://repo.spring.io/milestone'
url 'http://repo.spring.io/libs-release'
}
mavenLocal()
}
dependencies {
classpath (group: 'org.springframework.boot', name:'spring-boot-gradle-plugin',
version: '1.1.1.RELEASE')
}
}
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'war'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot'
war {
}
baseName = 'ch19-spring-boot'
version = '0.1.0'
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven {
url "http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot"
url 'http://repo.spring.io/milestone'
url 'http://repo.spring.io/libs-release'
}
}
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