Spring Boot 2 - Change Jar Name

Question

I am using Spring Boot 2 in my Gradle project to do a build to jar in Jenkins, and I would like to change the name of that jar file.

By default, Spring Boot 2 used the G

Answer 1

Since bootJar tasks extends Jar you can use archiveName to set name the directly:

bootJar {
   archiveName = 'whatever'
}

Have a look here.