External library folder for Spring Boot

Question

I wonder how to externalize all jdbc drivers for my Spring Boot applications, I would not like to insert jdbc drivers into my fat jar once the application is built.

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Answer 1

See the documentation about PropertiesLauncher:

• https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/executable-jar.html#executable-jar-property-launcher-features

Looks like you can use the loader.path property to define a lib folder location, containing jars to load - in fact the lib folder (inline with the jar) is the default location:

loader.path (if empty) defaults to lib (meaning a local directory or a nested one if running from an archive)