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

Isn't that what the classpath is for? As long as the jdbc driver jars are on the classpath, this should work. Something like this:

java -classpath /path/to/driver/jar -jar application.jar

You could also set the CLASSPATH environment variable for the same.