I'm currently running spring-boot version 1.4.0.RELEASE
application with embedded tomcat. Included Tomcat's version is 8.5.4
There's a need to update the tomcat version to 9.x
. When I looked at mvnrepository here, I found that there's an update available to tomcat version 9.0.5
(shown in pic below)
How should I use this version in my project if there's no way to directly mention this version in my pom.xml
?
I do not want to go the traditional deployment route (WAR artifacts on external tomcats).
Late to the party I know, was looking for a similar issue, thought I'd share a more literal hint.
You need to override the properties set in spring's parent pom to suit your case (and compatibility too):
This is according to Introduction to Spring. Their example shows many other dependencies cherry-picked.
If you are using spring boot gradle plugin and spring boot starters ..you can customise the version by setting maven project properties in build.gradle.
ext['tomcat.version'] = '8.5.34'
You can find all the external dependencies that can be customised in spring-boot-dependencies