spring boot war without tomcat embedded

Question

I want to create a war file without embedded tomcat with maven. Here the relevant part of my pom

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    org.springframework.bo         


        

Answer 1

Following the Hint from M. Deinum I excluded the tomcat-depedency.

With the following pom.xml (relevant snippet) a maven clean package has the result I want to get.

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    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-starter-parent
    1.1.6.RELEASE


    
        org.springframework.boot
        spring-boot-starter-web
        
            
                org.springframework.boot
                spring-boot-starter-tomcat
            
        
    
    
        org.springframework.boot
        spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf
    
    
    
        org.springframework.boot
        spring-boot-starter-tomcat
        provided
    


    
        
            org.springframework.boot
            spring-boot-maven-plugin
        
    

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Warning for idea-user: You must activate "Include dependencies with the provided scope" in the run-configuration (see Unable to start spring-boot application in IntelliJ Idea for more information)