Notes.txt

--Convert spring boot jar to war and deploy to tomcat
--Converting jar to war
1. Applcation class extends SpringBootServletInitializer

    @Override
    protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
        return application.sources(Application.class);
    }

2. Change the packaging type from jar to war
3. To ensure that the embedded servlet container does not interfere with the servlet container to
which the war file is deployed. To do so, you need to mark the embedded servlet container dependency as being provided.
	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
		<scope>provided</scope>
	</dependency>
4. Build the application. maven clean install
5. Place the war file in the tomcat/webapp folder
6. Start the tomcat and tomcat automatically unzips the war file and starts serving the requests
    http://localhost:8090/greeting?name=Baba