Spring Boot application.properties is not working when building using shadowJar

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Shadow Version

7.1.2

Gradle Version

7.6

Expected Behavior

Building Spring Boot Executable Jar using shadowJar: application.properties should be used when running java -jar abcShadowJar.jar

Actual Behavior

application.properties is not recognized by Spring Boot application because its in root directory when building using shadowJar.

Gradle Build Script(s)

shadowJar {
    mergeServiceFiles()
    zip64 true
   archiveClassifier.set('standalone')
}

Content of Shadow JAR (jar tf <jar file> - post link to GIST if too long)

Simple Spring Boot web application