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Yuri Pimenov
Yuri Pimenov

Reputation: 33

Gradle, War, tomcat and manifest

I'm trying to run a war file how it's provided in documentation. I do:

$ ./gradlew -Pprod war
$ java -jar  ./build/libs/jhipster-0.1-SNAPSHOT.war --spring.profiles.active=prod
no main manifest attribute, in ./build/libs/jhipster-0.1-SNAPSHOT.war

When I add Main-Class atribute to the war block:

war {
    baseName = 'jhipster'
    version =  '0.1-SNAPSHOT'
    manifest {
        attributes 'Main-Class': 'com.jhipster.web.Application'
    }
}

I get "Error: Could not find or load main class com.jhipster.web.Application"

It is said in spring-boot gradle plugin documentation http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#build-tool-plugins-gradle-packaging that it should find the Application class with main() method but somehow MANIFEST.MF contains only one line:

Manifest-Version: 1.0

What I do wrong?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4437

Answers (1)

Andy Wilkinson
Andy Wilkinson

Reputation: 116341

The war task doesn't run Spring Boot's repackaging task so you're left with a traditional unexecutable war file that doesn't have a Main-Class attribute in its manifest.

Try running build or bootRepackage instead:

$ ./gradlew -Pprod bootRepackage

Upvotes: 5

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