To deploy applications developed in Spring boot in standalone tomcat, following changes needs to be done
public class SimpleRestApp extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
@Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(SimpleRestApp.class);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(SimpleRestApp.class, args);
}
}
<packaging>war</packaging>
<build>
<finalName>SimpleRestApp</finalName>
....
</build>