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Deploying a Spring Application

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Running a JAR from the Command Line

2:48 with Chris Ramacciotti

In this video, we create a runnable JAR of our Spring app, so that we can run it with an embedded web server from the command line with the `java` command.

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    The next option we're going to cover for building in deploying our app, 0:00
    is with a JAR file. 0:03
    Now, you've heard of JAR files before. 0:04
    JAR stands for Java archive, and it's a way to roll up all the code analysis, 0:06
    of an application into a single file. 0:09
    It's kind of like a ZIP file, that contains Java code. 0:11
    I want to clarify a new term that I'm using here, and that is the term build. 0:14
    To build an application in our case means to compile and 0:17
    bundle all necessary byte code and assets like properties files and 0:21
    Thymeleaf templates into a form that we can run. 0:25
    The form in this scenario is a JAR file. 0:28
    We're going to create a runnable JAR file that we can run from the command line. 0:31
    Now doing this in IntelliJ or from the command line takes only one step. 0:34
    In IntelliJ, you can use a grill tool window and 0:38
    run the build task if you expand the build category. 0:41
    You will see a build task there, double click on that to run it. 0:43
    Or from the command line, you can use ./gradlew or 0:47
    ./gradlew.bad if you're on Windows, and then build. 0:51
    Note that the build task in Gradle will run unit tests. 0:58
    So for this project, if you haven't copied API keys 1:02
    into the api.properties files as it says in the readme of the GitHub repo, 1:06
    be sure to do that now or your unit tests will fail. 1:11
    Okay. 1:15
    So what this task does is create a runnable JAR file in the build directory 1:16
    of your project. 1:20
    A runnable JAR file is a JAR file that has Java code in it and 1:21
    includes a class marked as the main class. 1:24
    The class marked as a main class is the one that contains our 1:27
    public static void main method. 1:30
    For us, that's the application class. 1:31
    So in the project navigator here you should see a build directory pop up and 1:35
    if you expand that build directory and 1:39
    then expand the libs directory, here is the snapshot that was just created. 1:41
    There is that JAR file, you see that .jar at the end of the file name. 1:46
    Running the JAR file at this point will produce the same result as we got 1:51
    running the Gradle boot run task in the last video. 1:54
    The benefit here is that we now have a portable build, our JAR file. 1:57
    We could run this from any computer or server. 2:01
    Let's do that now. 2:03
    In order to deploy or run this build we'll need to issue the Java command like this. 2:04
    Let me clear my console here, and we'll say, java-jar. 2:09
    And that's in the, build/libs, directory. 2:14
    And it's called a weather-0.0.1- snapshot.jar. 2:18
    And if I hit enter there, what you can see 2:26
    is that we're getting the same output here as we got with the boot run task, and 2:28
    that's because we're still running the application with that embedded web server. 2:32
    So what if you already have a running web server and 2:38
    you want to deploy this application to that server? 2:41
    Well my friends, stick with me, because that's what we're going to do next. 2:44

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