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This article explains how to package a Spring Boot application so that its dependencies are stored externally and loaded at runtime using Maven plugins and the PropertiesLauncher, enabling easy replacement of individual libraries without rebuilding the entire fat jar.
This article explains how to create a Spring Boot fat‑jar that externalizes its dependencies by configuring the spring‑boot‑maven‑plugin and maven‑assembly‑plugin to produce a ZIP layout, then uses the PropertiesLauncher with loader.path to load libraries from a separate libs directory at runtime.
This article explains how to create a Spring Boot package that keeps dependencies external by configuring the spring-boot-maven-plugin and maven-assembly-plugin, using a ZIP layout and PropertiesLauncher, so the application can be started with a custom loader.path that points to a libs directory.