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

My goal was to remove version from the archive name. I did it this way:

bootJar {
   archiveName = "$baseName.$extension"
}

Now Gradle generates "project-name.jar" instead of "project-name-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar". This solution is general and doesn't hardcode any particular archive name.