Package a spring boot application including JSPs and static resources

Question

I want to package a spring-boot application as jar, and I do so with mvn package.

This produces a jar which does not contain any /WEB-INF/jsp

Answer 1

I had the same problem you had. I tried the answer above that you marked correct but it didn't work for me.

This worked ... change the pom.xml to ...

<packaging>war</packaging>

... this will causes maven to create a WAR file that is executable like so ...

java -jar yourwarfile.war

I found this solution with this similar question here ...

WEB-INF not included in WebApp using SpringBoot, Spring-MVC and Maven

Answer 2

To create a runnable JAR with Spring Boot, use the spring-boot-maven-plugin in your pom.xml

<build>
<plugins>
    <plugin>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    </plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Maybe you want to have a look at my example application http://info.michael-simons.eu/2014/02/20/developing-a-web-application-with-spring-boot-angularjs-and-java-8/ (Source is on GitHub, App is live and runs from a JAR).

One thing that you should note: JSP from JAR doesn't work due to some embedded Tomcat problems. I'm using Thymeleaf. If you need JSP, stay with the WAR deployment.

Answer 3

Is there any reason why you can't use the war packaging type? https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/usage.html I would recommend to use the war packaging type and use default maven web-application structure.

If you really want to use the jar plugin for your webapp, you need to configure it for your project. Due to your posting, I don't understand your structure and can't give you an example. Check out the usage of jar plugin here:https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/usage.html

Answer 4

The following example works with Spring Boot 1.3.3.RELEASE: https://github.com/ghillert/spring-boot-jsp-demo

The key is to put the static jsp content in:

/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/WEB-INF/jsp

and ensure you define the view prefix/suffix in your application.properties:

spring.mvc.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/jsp/
spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp

Answer 5

Change your build tag to

 <build>
<resources>
            <resource>
                <directory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp</directory>
                <includes>
                    <include>**/**</include>
                </includes>
            </resource>
            <resource>
                <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
                <includes>
                    <include>**/**</include>
                </includes>
            </resource>
        </resources>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <useSystemClassLoader>false</useSystemClassLoader>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>