Open tamalnath opened 7 months ago
Interesting, I haven't seen this type of deployment before.
This is the script they use, it is 309 lines, which is pretty big: Spring Boot launcher script
An internal sample service I tried with it, using the maven plugin, failed at startup with InvocationTargetExceptions. I didn't diagnose it further.
I am a bit nervous to jump into this, as it seems like it could be a maintenance/support effort. But it is on the backlog.
Spring Boot provides support for fully executable archives. An archive is made fully executable by prepending a shell script that knows how to launch the application. On Unix-like platforms, this launch script allows the archive to be run directly like any other executable or to be installed as a service.
Maven and Gradle plugins currently support this:
Need a way to build a fully executable jar using Bazel.