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How to use external jar in springboot project

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, spring-boot
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start with the issue's Maven dependency configuration and the java -jar springboot-sample.war -classpath ... command. Determine what documented usage should cover for the external okm-spring-plugins-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar, and consider the question resolved when the project has a clear, reproducible way to use that jar without the absolute systemPath dependency.

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Description

Hi,

I have a spring boot project what is using spring-plugin, my project is named springboot-sample ( it builds a springboot-sample.war ). My plugins code are in a external project, what build a jar file ( okm-spring-plugins-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar ).

Currently, if I add in my spring boot project (war file ) the next dependency, I get it working:

....
<dependency>
<groupId>com.test</groupId>
<artifactId>okm-spring-plugins</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>/software/git/test-spring-plugin/okm-spring-plugins/target/okm-spring-plugins-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
...

I have tried to remove the dependency and set the plugin's jar from the command line:

java -jar springboot-sample.war -classpath /software/git/test-spring-plugin/okm-spring-plugins/target/

But seems is not working, any suggestion will be appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

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