Spring Boot Gradle Plugin

External

• https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/gradle-plugin/reference/html/

Internal

• Spring Boot Concepts
• Gradle Plugins

Overview

apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'

The plugin is responsible with:

• packaging executable jar or war archives
• run Spring Boot applications
• use the dependency management provided by spring-boot-dependencies.

Packaging

Executable JARs are created by the bootJar task. The task is automatically created with the java plugin is applied. It is an instance of BootJar. bootJar can be configured with:

bootJar {

    // enable (default)/disable the task
    // enabled = true | false
}

When bootJar or bootWar tasks are configured, the jar or war tasks are disabled. The jar task can be enabled with:

jar {

    enabled = true
}