Spring Boot Executable jar structure

Question

I\'m trying to run Spring Boot sample application. And I added couple of images in \"images\" folder under webapp folder (same level as WEB-INF).

I created executabl

Answer 1

This is covered in the documentation about static resources:

Do not use the src/main/webapp folder if your application will be packaged as a jar. Although this folder is a common standard, it will only work with war packaging and it will be silently ignored by most build tools if you generate a jar.

You should place your static resources in src/main/resources instead.