Spring boot application won't run when trying to run from the jar file

Question

I have a spring boot application which works fine when run through intellij. But when I run it from the jar I am getting the below exception.

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Answer 1

You have spring-boot-starter-jersey in your pom.xml. The error you are getting is /BOOT-INF/classes (No such file or directory). This is the issue with jersey which doesn't work well with spring-boot fat jar. Please refer this and this for more details. For work around you have to package the classes that should be scanned by jersey in a jar and extract the jar as given at Spring-Boot documentation Extract specific libraries when an executable jar runs