Spring Boot App does not deploy on Glassfish 4.1

Question

I have a vanilla spring boot app that consists of the following pom.xml

Answer 1

It looks like this a bug in Glassfish: GLASSFISH-21265

You can try to get around that by adding metadata-complete="true" in your web.xml like this:

The metadata-complete="true" indicates that the JAR files in /WEB-INF/lib doesn't need to be scanned for Servlet 3.0 specific annotations, but the webapp's own classes will still be scanned.

See also:

• Spring Boot on Glassfish
• Spring Boot app deployed to Glassfish is giving strange results
• Cannot deploy simple project on Glassfish 3.1.2 and 4.0.0+
• Spring.io Blog - Deploying Spring Boot Applications