Gradle - Change the name of the jar

Question

I would like to change the name of the jar when I do a

./gradlew clean assemble

The name of my jar is my-awsome-app-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar and I want to generate my-awsome-app.jar.

I tested to do this in the build.gradle:

configurations {
   jar.archiveName = "my-awsome-app.${jar.extension}"
}

...but this is not working, the name is still the same

Answer 1

Since you are using Spring Boot, you should use the bootJar task instead (notice bootJar extends Jar).

Since archiveName in Jar has been deprecated, use archiveFileName:

bootJar {
   archiveFileName = 'my-awesome-app.jar'
}