How to deploy Spring Boot Web App War file to Tomcat Server with Maven build

Link: http://javasampleapproach.com/spring-framework/spring-boot/deploy-spring-boot-web-app-war-file-tomcat-server-maven-build#2_Deploy_War_file_on_Tomcat

The tutorial is a guide to traditional deployment problem: “How to create a Spring Boot Web App War file with Maven then deploys it on Tomcat server”

I. Technologies
– Java 1.8
– Maven 3.3.9
– Spring Tool Suite – Version 3.8.1.RELEASE
– Spring Boot: 1.5.6.RELEASE
– Tomcat: apache-tomcat-8.5.20

II. Practice
1. Create a War file
– Create Spring Boot Web App
– extends SpringBootServletInitializer & override configure method
– Update build configuration: war
– Configure embedded servlet container dependency as provided

2. Deploy War file on Tomcat
– Build the project: maven clean install. Then go to target folder, we have a war file: SpringBootWarDeployment-0.0.1.war.

– Copy SpringBootWarDeployment-0.0.1.war to apache-tomcat-8.5.13webapps folder and rename it to javasampleapp.

– Go to apache-tomcat-8.5.13bin, then start: startup.bat(startup.sh)