Spring RESTful Service as a WAR instead of JAR in Tomcat

Question

I am in the process of creating a REST web service in Java Spring. I\'ve successfully loaded STS and the example detailed at :

\"This guide walks you through the pr

Answer 1

I would expect to see some INFO output when a spring boot application starts so some ideas are:

Try a regular tomcat instance

• Download and extract the zip distribution.
• Start tomcat with bin/startup.sh
• Copy your war to the webapps directory
• Check the logs... hope to see some evidence of spring starting up

Manually inspect the war file

• Unzip your war file
• Expect to see WEB-INF/web.xml