How to run this project within IDE (like eclipse)

[atultherajput]

Thank you for the solution. I am to generate jar, bootJar and war in a single build. Initially my project was normal spring boot application with embedded tomcat. And I was able to run main class as java application directly from eclipse. But now after restructuring it's giving error while running Main class as java application. Below is the error: "Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean."

Is there any way to run the application within the IDE using embedded server. I am trying to avoid external server here.

[vpavic]

Hello @atultherajput!

Thank you for the interest in this sample project, I hope you've found it helpful.

Running from the IDE is indeed not as straightforward as with a simple application, but it shouldn't be too hard to set up. Basically, you need to run the demo.DemoApplication while providing the classpath of the demo-package-jar project.

I haven't used Eclipse in a while, but this is how the run configuration looks for me in IntelliJ:

Please let me know if you managed to configure something similar to this in Eclipse. In order to help other users, I'll add these instructions to project's readme.

[atultherajput]

Great. Thanks for helping with this. I was able to run the application in eclipse. The only issue with eclipse was that the ui doesn't present the class to be chosen from its search dialog. Therefore I had to enter the fully qualified class name into "Main class" text field and then run the application. Please refer to this stackoverflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22486770

[francesco-clementi-92]

Hi guys, @vpavic thanks for your template! @atultherajput could you explain me better how did you manage to start spring boot server locally?