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.

Answer 2

Follow the given structure to create fat jar :

Demo
└── src
|    ├── main
|    │   ├── java
|    │   │     └── org
|    │   │          └── demo
|    │   │                └── App.java
|    │   └── resources
|    │       └── application.properties
|    |       |
|    |       └── META-INF
|    |       |        └── resources
|    |       |                 └── jsp
|    |       └── static
|    |              └── css
|    |              └── js
|    |    
|    └── test
|         └── java
|               └── org
|                    └── demo
|                          └── App.java  
├──── pom.xml