Introduction Spring Boot Maven plugin by default generates the WAR file inside the target folder. In this post, I will explain how to copy the generated war file to an external Tomcat's webapps folder using Spring Boot Maven plugin. In my earliest post , you can learn how to package a Spring Boot application as WAR. Solution Step 1 Follow this link to specify the packaging as WAR in pom.xml and also to configure the SpringBootServletInitializer class Step 2 (optional) Specify a cleaner name for WAR using the finalName tag in pom.xml <finalName>auth</finalName> Step 3 Specify the outputDirectory directory <build> <finalname>auth</finalname> <plugins> <plugin> <groupid>org.springframework.boot</groupid> <artifactid>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactid> <configuration> ...
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