Spring Boot Maven plugin provides Spring Boot support in the maven. This plugin provides options to create an executable jar or war files. Here are goals for this plugin.
* boot:run runs your Spring Boot application.
* spring-boot:repackage repackages your jar/war to be executable.
* spring-boot:start and spring-boot:stop to manage the lifecycle of your Spring Boot application (i.e. for integration tests).
* spring-boot:build-info generates build information that can be used by the Actuator.
To include this plugin in your project, add XML in the plugins section of your pom.xml
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0.5.RELEASE</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>repackage</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
