Differences between jar and war in Spring Boot?

Question

I\'m about to build my first website in Java with Spring Framework using Spring Boot and it\'s much easier to build it in jar, but I have a few questions about

Answer 1

I was under the same problem, when I deployed my jar issue free on my local. Then I had to demo it on the server. You can create a war file by changing the pom.xml , tag

jar

to

war

and you will have a war file in your target which you can deploy to your server(tomcat in my case)