Run Spring-boot's main using IDE

Question

I have a spring-boot application that needs to:

• Be deployable as a war in a servlet container
• Be runnable via `mvn spring-boot:run``

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Answer 1

I believe this could be related to https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-107048

IntelliJ IDEA is not injecting the provided dependencies into the CLASSPATH and as Andy stated this is why spring is unable to create the embedded servlet container.

They have a feature request since 2005 about this: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-99

Workarounds mentioned in the comments includes having a fake module with the necessary libs and using it as classpath, using the -Xbootclasspath JVM argument or using custom maven profiles for running (compiled) vs building (provided).