How to exclude embeded Tomcat in Spring Boot application

Question

How can we exclude embedded Tomcat server from Spring Boot application so that we can run that jar on JBoss Server?

Answer 1

You can exclude in pom file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <artifactId>tomcat-embed-el</artifactId>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
        </exclusion>
        <exclusion>
            <artifactId>tomcat-embed-core</artifactId>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
        </exclusion>
        <exclusion>
            <artifactId>tomcat-embed-websocket</artifactId>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

You can follow this link with screenshots

Spring documentation on Embedded servlet container

Answer 2

you can modify your POM.xml file as follows:

  <!-- Removing the dependency for the embedded tomcat -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
                <exclusions>
                    <exclusion>
                        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
                    </exclusion>
                </exclusions>