I have created a war file from my Spring Boot application and deployed into Tomcat server, but it gives 404: not found error. The application works perfectly when run using the IDE embedded server. To convert the application to war, I have done the following:
1- Change Application class to:
@SpringBootApplication
public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
@Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure (SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources (Application.class);
}
public static void main (String [] args) {
SpringApplication.run (Application.class, args);
}
}
2- Modified pom.xml and changed spring-boot-starter-tomcat to provided
I created the war file using mvn clean package -Pproduction command
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If you take a starter app from start.vaadin.com what you need to change is:
packaging in pom.xml from jar to war
exclude spring-boot-starter-tomcat e.g. by making it provided
Maybe you can try that and see if it works the same or differently.
Another issue I have run into is compiling the project with a newer JDK than the server is running on. Sometimes this results in just nothing being deployed.
Artur Signell:
If you take a starter app from start.vaadin.com what you need to change is:
packaging in pom.xml from jar to war
exclude spring-boot-starter-tomcat e.g. by making it provided
Maybe you can try that and see if it works the same or differently.
Another issue I have run into is compiling the project with a newer JDK than the server is running on. Sometimes this results in just nothing being deployed.
Surprisingly, I am getting the same error message with the starter app. So, the problem is most likely related to tomcat. I will try it on a different server and let you know.
I tried to run the starter project using eclipse’s embedded Tomcat server and I am getting the same error, see the attached image. This is my Application class:
package com.example.application;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;
/**
* The entry point of the Spring Boot application.
*/
@SpringBootApplication
public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
@Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure (SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources (Application.class);
}
public static void main (String [] args) {
SpringApplication.run (Application.class, args);
}
}
And this is my pom.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example.application</groupId>
<artifactId>myapp</artifactId>
<name>Project base for Spring Boot and Vaadin Flow</name>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<start-class>com.example.application.Application</start-class>
<java.version>8</java.version>
<vaadin.version>14.5.2</vaadin.version>
</properties>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.4.4</version>
</parent>
<repositories>
<!-- The order of definitions matters. Explicitly defining central here to make sure it has the highest priority. -->
<!-- Main Maven repository -->
<repository>
<id>central</id>
<url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
<!-- Repository used by many Vaadin add-ons -->
<repository>
<id>Vaadin Directory</id>
<url>https://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-addons</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<!-- Main Maven repository -->
<pluginRepository>
<id>central</id>
<url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-bom</artifactId>
<version>${vaadin.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<!-- Replace artifactId with vaadin-core to use only free components -->
<artifactId>vaadin</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<!-- Webjars are only needed when running in Vaadin 13 compatibility mode -->
<exclusion>
<groupId>com.vaadin.webjar</groupId>
<artifactId>*</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.webjars.bowergithub.insites</groupId>
<artifactId>*</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.webjars.bowergithub.polymer</groupId>
<artifactId>*</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.webjars.bowergithub.polymerelements</groupId>
<artifactId>*</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.webjars.bowergithub.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>*</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.webjars.bowergithub.webcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>*</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<!-- Excluding so that webjars are not included. -->
<exclusion>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-core</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.vaadin.artur</groupId>
<artifactId>a-vaadin-helper</artifactId>
<version>1.6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-validation</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-testbench</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Include JUnit 4 support for TestBench and others -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
<artifactId>hamcrest-core</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
<artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<defaultGoal>spring-boot:run</defaultGoal>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<!-- Clean build and startup time for Vaadin apps sometimes may exceed
the default Spring Boot's 30sec timeout. -->
<configuration>
<wait>500</wait>
<maxAttempts>240</maxAttempts>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<!--
Take care of synchronizing java dependencies and imports in
package.json and main.js files.
It also creates webpack.config.js if not exists yet.
-->
<plugin>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${vaadin.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-frontend</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<profiles>
<profile>
<!-- Production mode is activated using -Pproduction -->
<id>production</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${vaadin.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>build-frontend</goal>
</goals>
<phase>compile</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<productionMode>true</productionMode>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>it</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>start-spring-boot</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>start</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>stop-spring-boot</id>
<phase>post-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>stop</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!-- Runs the integration tests (*IT) after the server is started -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<trimStackTrace>false</trimStackTrace>
<enableAssertions>true</enableAssertions>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
</project>
I made sure that both the project and tomcat server use the same JDK. I am not sure what to do here, please advise.
Normally you should have an error in your logs/catalina.out when you run/deploy the application.
You can also exclude the tomcat embedded with Spring boot, it can cause a conflict if you are using a different version. For example if you are trying on tomcat8. You have this kind of error:
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