Packaging and running a Spring Boot application

Now that we know something more about building microservices within Spring Boot, we need to package and run our service. This will teach us how to package a Spring Boot application.

Then, we will analyze the difference between packaging, using JARs or WARs.

Finally, we learn how to run the package applications, and how to creating self-executables JARs.

Packaging

We can package the application using the Maven lifecycle phase package, either using the IntelliJ Maven projects window or from the command line.

We can open a command line to the project folder from IntelliJ using the terminal window from the menu—View | Tool Windows | Terminal or using the Alt + F12 keybinding...