With a Spring (Boot/Cloud) application you can create a fully executable JAR, where the jar can be run from the command-line by just calling ./my-own-jar-0.0.1.jar. My colleague Mr. Haki wrote Grails Goodness: Creating A Fully Executable Jar. Together with the famous one-liner of Josh Long in mind: "Make JAR not WAR!", create a JAR whenever you develop a Spring Boot/Cloud application. As described in Mr. Haki's blog, it is very easy to make our Spring application executable:

 org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-maven-plugin
    true 

## Gradle configuration

```gradle
apply plugin: 'spring-boot'

springBoot {
    executable = true
}

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