Executing an Arbitrary Main Class from a Spring Boot JAR

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• Spring Boot

Overview

A Spring Boot JAR comes with all an application needs to function, and the application can be started as simply as:

java -jar my-app.jar

This works because there is a well defined entry point that bootstraps the Spring Boot runtime. The application bytecode is maintained under a BOOT-INF directory inside the JAR. However, this interferes with ...