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 was able to make this work by changing the scope of the spring-boot-starter-tomcat dependency to "compile" under Project structure->Dependencies tab. This doesn't effect pom.xml but allows this dependencies to be available to spring boot run configuration

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