Build Gradle JAR without dependencies

Question

From command line, I need to build an executable jar without dependencies. The current "gradle build" command gives me a jar with dependencies.

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Answer 1

As you have SpringBoot plugin enabled, the default behavior is to build an executable jar (fat-jar) containing all dependencies, through thebootJar task.

You can still generate a single "standard" jar if you need, this is explained in the documentation : Spring Boot Gradle plugin

jar {
    enabled = true
}
bootJar {
    classifier = 'boot'
}