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Building and Running from Command-Line

The pom.xml file is a basic Maven build script for creating your microservice as an executable uber-jar. The easiest way to build your microservice is to run the following from the project root.

mvn clean install

Your target directory should now contain the following files:

  • my-springboot-microservice-1.0.jar

To start from a command line, run the following command from inside your target directory:

java -jar my-springboot-microservice-1.0.jar

You should see the following console output:

.   ____          _            __ _ _
/\\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __  __ _ \ \ \ \
( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \
\\/  ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| |  ) ) ) )
'  |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / /
=========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/
:: Spring Boot ::        (v2.0.1.RELEASE)
...
INFO: Tomcat started on port(s): 8080 (http) with context path ''
Dec 21, 2012 12:30:00 AM org.springframework.boot.StartupInfoLogger logStarted
INFO: Started App in 1.999 seconds (JVM running for 2.999)