I have created a Spring Boot Microservice using IntelliJ-Idea and Gradle as the build engine. I have made no changes to the initial Spring Boot configuration. I also have made no modifications to the build.gradle file provided. I built the application using starter.spring.io through IntelliJ-Idea and have the following dependencies:
compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa')
compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools')
compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
runtime('org.postgresql:postgresql')
testCompile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test')
The application currently contains 12 classes and 2 interfaces and is a Web Service provider. It runs fine on my system but when I build with Gradle, the Manifest.MF contains no Main-Class entry.
I created a very simple Hello World app and tried several combinations of IDE’s and build tools(Gradle and Maven) and got the following results:
Interestingly, I was able to produce executable jars in Eclipse which has a separate Runnable JAR Export process.
I'm fairly new to IntelliJ and Gradle. Has anyone see this behavior before? Any ideas what I might be doing wrong in IntelliJ? I have my Hello World project zipped up if anyone needs it.