Spring Boot Maven Plugin - No BOOT-INF directory

Question

Between version 1.3.8.RELEASE of the spring-boot-maven-plugin and version 1.4.0.RELEASE - there has been a change in the generated package structure (if you extract the uber

Answer 1

For me, the solution was a bit more insidious....I had the spring-boot-maven-plugin nested under pluginManagement, (see below). Doh!

The nasty thing, is that when I'd run mvn spring-boot:run, spring boot comes up just fine, and runs app! It wasn't until we tried to deploy to PCF (as a spring-boot JAR), that we'd get an error that there was something wrong with format of the binary....

  
  

                 
      
        org.springframework.boot
        spring-boot-maven-plugin
        ${spring.boot.version}            
        
            
                
                    repackage
                    build-info
                
            
                                
                                           
    

  

        


    
      org.springframework.boot
      spring-boot-maven-plugin
      ${spring.boot.version}            
      
          
              
                  repackage
                  build-info
              
          
                              
                             

  

Once I removed the pluginManagement tags from the POM, I would now get the ./BOOT-INF structure. Please keep in mind that pluginManagement is typically for a parent-pom structure, where you want that plugin's config used across other modules.