Add additional parameters to Spring Boot app

Question

I am wondering if it's possible to add spring's additional parameters such as -Dspring.profiles.active=prod to spring boot app in case of running it as a service.

I checked the script that was generated automatically by spring-boot-maven-plugin:

command="$javaexe -jar -Dsun.misc.URLClassPath.disableJarChecking=true $jarfile $@"

so maybe it can be done via maven plugin's options, but couldn't find any except of JVM arguments which is not so useful...

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 17 '16 at 20:14

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I couldn't find any solution including the one I described in question - it seems that plugin's additional params also don't work.

At the end I solved it by using systemd service approach.

Looks like that and works perfectly:

[Unit]
Description=Some app
After=syslog.target

[Service]
ExecStart=java -Dspring.profiles.active=production -jar /home/apps/monitoring-app-1.0.0.jar

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

edited Aug 17 '16 at 20:14

yglodt

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answered Jul 29 '15 at 03:21

nKognito

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Are you sure this is working? Failing big time for me. – Kees de Kooter Jul 21 '16 at 13:45
Something like "invalid syntax". Sorry I can't be more specific. – Kees de Kooter Jul 21 '16 at 15:47
Yes I could not start the service – Kees de Kooter Jul 21 '16 at 15:49
It should say java -Dspring.profiles.active=production -jar /home/apps/monitoring-app-1.0.0.jar (note monitoring-app-1.0.0.jar follows the -jar parameter) I edited the answer accordingly. – yglodt Aug 17 '16 at 20:12

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 30 '19 at 15:18

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You can use external configuration file for example.

Based on the documentation if you provide an application.properties file in the ./config directory next to the executed jar you can set up the active profile through that properties file.

Just use spring.profiles.active=myprofile in ./config/application.properties

http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-external-config.html#boot-features-external-config-application-property-files

http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/common-application-properties.html

edited Apr 30 '19 at 15:18

Edward J Beckett

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answered Sep 07 '15 at 00:18

László Szabó

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It seems that does not even overwrite the default application.properties inside the jar file, which is great. – Wim Deblauwe Dec 18 '15 at 16:16

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 15 '19 at 11:17

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Create a .conf file in the same directory with the same name as your executable jar e.g.

server-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar server-1.0-SNAPSHOT.conf

JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx500m \
-Dspring.profiles.active=myprofile"

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/deployment-install.html#deployment-script-customization-conf-file

edited Apr 15 '19 at 11:17

Marc Tarin

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answered Jan 01 '18 at 16:19

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