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

I'm not sure if that's the spring-boot way of doing it, but you can exclude the tomcat jars using the maven-war-plugin configuration. That is, add the following to your pom.xml:

    
        ...
        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-war-plugin
            2.4
            
                WEB-INF/lib/tomcat-*.jar
            
        
    

Using this approach, the war generated is not executable (cannot be run on command line using java -jar ) but can only be deployed to any servlet container