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 think that the easiest way to build a final WAR from your existing Spring Boot project without embedded Tomcat is the following:

1) Set WARpackaging for your artifact: war

2) Set the Tomcat Server dependency to provide:

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

If some of your existing Spring Boot dependencies contain it by default, just exclude it. Example:

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

That is it.