SpringBoot application shuts down when running using JAR, but works well when running from cmd or VSCode

Question

I am trying to run a SpringBoot application from a JAR file, which I have built using VSCode's Project Manager from Java.

The app runs smoothly when running from VSCode, or when running from the command line, using

mvn spring-boot:run

This is my Main Class file:

package com.jvc.interconnectingflights.app;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;

@SpringBootApplication
@ComponentScan("com.jvc.interconnectingflights")
public class InterconnectingFlightsApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(InterconnectingFlightsApplication.class, args);
    }

}

This is my pom.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.2</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.jvc</groupId>
    <artifactId>interconnecting-flights</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>interconnecting-flights</name>
    <description>SpringBoot app</description>
    <properties>
        <java.version>17</java.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-webflux</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
            <version>1.18.22</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
            <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.1.Final</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

This is the output I am getting when running from the JAR:

22:05:28.287 [main] INFO com.jvc.interconnectingflights.app.InterconnectingFlightsApplication - Started InterconnectingFlightsApplication in 3.102 seconds (process running for 3.46)
22:05:28.318 [SpringApplicationShutdownHook] DEBUG org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext - Closing org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext@78e94dcf, started on Tue Jan 31 22:05:25 CET 2023

I have tried all the answers from related posts, but still no luck. I would really appreciate any advice!

Tried answers from this post and related ones:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22380119/why-does-my-spring-boot-app-always-shutdown-immediately-after-starting

Answer 1

Created a new JAR using mvn package, which turned out to work. VSCode's Java Project Manager doesn't seem to build the JAR correctly