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Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot
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Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

by Claudio Eduardo de Oliveira, Greg L. Turnquist, Alex Antonov
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
982 pages
23h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Bundling up the application as a runnable JAR file

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 ...

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