同时使用Maven Jar插件和Spring引导maven插件

Question

I am trying to create jar for my spring boot server using spring boot maven plugin and my test automation framework jar from same project and pom file. To read external resources I am trying to defined manifest entries in maven jar plugin but this is causing spring server to not find application.properties in its default locations when run as a linux service using /etc/init.d/my-jar start.

Here is snippet of my pom file

<plugin>
  <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.5.3</version>
  <configuration>
    <descriptors>
      <descriptor>src/assembly/dep.xml</descriptor>
    </descriptors>
    <archive>
      <manifest>
        <mainClass>com.myorg.mainclass</mainClass>
      </manifest>
    </archive>
  </configuration>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>make-assembly</id>
      <goals>
        <goal>single</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>springloaded</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.5.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

</plugin>
<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.2</version>
  <configuration>
    <finalName>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-main-only</finalName>
    <archive>
      <manifest>
        <mainClass>com.myorg.mainclass</mainClass>
      </manifest>
      <manifestEntries>
        <Class-Path>./config/</Class-Path>
      </manifestEntries>
    </archive>
    <excludes>
      <exclude>**/application-test.properties</exclude>
    </excludes>
  </configuration>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <phase>verify</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>test-jar</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

I have tried changing phase of my maven assembly and jar plugin to verify but the problem still persists. Removing manifest entry seems to work but then my external resource files are not read.

Answer 1

To solve the problem I removed the manifest entries from maven jar plugin and then while running the test jar. I added the external resource directory path into classpath as follows:

java -classpath my/external/resource/directory/path -jar my-tests.jar