SpringBoot: Unable to find a single main class from the following candidates

问题

I've generated a Spring Boot web application using Spring Initializer, embedded Tomcat, Thymeleaf template engine.Technologies used: Spring Boot 1.4.2.RELEASE, Spring 4.3.4.RELEASE, Thymeleaf 2.1.5.RELEASE, Tomcat Embed 8.5.6, Maven 3, Java 8

I have an SpringBoot app. with these 2 classes:

@Profile("!war")
@SpringBootApplication
@Import({SecurityConfig.class ,PersistenceConfig.class, ServiceConfig.class})
public class BookApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(BookApplication.class, args);
    }
}

@Profile("war")
@Import({SecurityConfig.class ,PersistenceConfig.class})
@SpringBootApplication
public class BookApplicationWar extends SpringBootServletInitializer {

    @Override
    protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
        return application.sources(BookApplicationWar.class);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        SpringApplication.run(BookApplicationWar.class, args);
    }

}

I generate the war with this command

 mvn clean package -DskipTests -Dspring.profiles.active=pebloc,war -DAPP-KEY=pebloc

But I got this error:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:1.5.2.RELEASE:repackage (default) on project book: Execution default of goal org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:1.5.2.RELEASE:repackage failed: Unable to find a single main class from the following candidates [com.tdk.BookApplication, com.tdk.BookApplicationWar] -> [Help 1]

回答1:

If you have more than one main class, you need to explicitly configure the main class in each profile:

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>profile1</id>
        <properties>
          <spring.boot.mainclass>com.SomeClass</spring.boot.mainclass>
        </properties>
    </profile>
    <profile>
        <id>profile2</id>
        <properties>
          <spring.boot.mainclass>com.SomeOtherClass</spring.boot.mainclass>
        </properties>
    </profile>
</profiles>

...

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.5.2.RELEASE</version>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <goals>
          <goal>repackage</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
          <mainClass>${spring.boot.mainclass}</mainClass>
        </configuration>
      </execution>
    </executions>
    ...
</plugin>

See spring-boot:repackage

回答2:

Define single main class via start-class property

<properties>
      <start-class>com.may.Application</start-class>
</properties>

Alternatively, define the main class in the spring-boot-maven-plugin

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <mainClass>com.may.Application</mainClass>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Or via profiles

<profiles>
        <profile>
            <id>profile1</id>
            <properties>
                <spring.boot.mainclass>com.may.Application1</spring.boot.mainclass>
            </properties>
        </profile>
        <profile>
            <id>profile2</id>
            <properties>
                <spring.boot.mainclass>com.may.Application2</spring.boot.mainclass>
            </properties>
        </profile>
<profiles>

<build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>repackage</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <mainClass>${spring.boot.mainclass}</mainClass>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

回答3:

or simply hard code the main class in plugin configuration.

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>repackage</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <mainClass>your.main.class.MainClass</mainClass>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

回答4:

Sometimes this error is given when you do mvn install without doing mvn clean.

回答5:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:1.5.2.RELEASE:repackage (default) on project book: Execution default of goal org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:1.5.2.RELEASE:repackage failed: Unable to find a single main class from the following candidates [com.tdk.BookApplication, com.tdk.BookApplicationWar]

One possible reason to getting following error is more than one main methods in your code, Spring boot allow only one main method across all class in same project.

回答6:

From the command line you can use

... -Dstart-class=com.your.package.application.BookApplication

回答7:

Check your application if you have multiple classes with public static void main(String[] args). Remove the one that you do not need. Specially if you generate the project with https://start.spring.io/ it comes with a class with main method in it.

If you do need all of the classes with main method just explicitly mention which one would to be boos-trapped up on application start up by mentioning it in the pom.