spring boot application deployed as war on weblogic- not working - maven

i am new to weblogic, struggling to deploy war. I have a spring boot application running on embedded tomcat.I changed main class as follows.
#SpringBootApplication
#Configuration
#ComponentScan("com.fmc.*")
#EnableAutoConfiguration
public class ApplicationBoot extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(
ApplicationBoot.class, args);
}
#Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(
SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(ApplicationBoot.class);
}
}
i changed packaging as war and excluded the tomcat jars and deployed. But when a submit request, I am getting 404.
I don't see anything in logs in the diagnostics in admin console. Is there aythere place to see the logs. In the weblogic admin console,I can see the application as active and health as ok.
I changed the same application spring web application, it's running successfully, but not spring boot application.
Thanks for your help.

public class ApplicationBoot extends SpringBootServletInitializer implements WebApplicationInitializer
main class has to implement WebApplicationInitializer, thought of useful for some one

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It seems that I can use SpringBoot for this. SpringBoot can both create WAR and JAR-files.
My question is: should I use SpringBoot ApplicationRunner for a portable daemon?
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Tx
ApplicationRunner is new in Spring Boot 1.4. It is similar to CommandLineRunner of Spring Boot 1.3. It isn't involved in the wiring up of the Application context as such that interface wouldn't be responsible for creating any Servlets in the WAR deployment. Here is details on deploying your app as a WAR:
http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/howto-traditional-deployment.html
#SpringBootApplication
public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
#Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(Application.class);
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
}
}
The SpringBootServletInitializer is what will create the servlet.
Now I am not sure how you are setting up the MQ processor but if it is wired up as a bean and has some listener thread for messages on a queue then you don't really need the ApplicationRunner. You would just need to wire up the processor as a bean and have a #PostConstruct annotation on it so that you can start the listener thread. If you don't have control of the annotations on the bean then you can use the ApplicationRunner and have it Autowired with the processor bean. The runner would then start up the listener thread.

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rror during ServletContainerInitializer processing
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#Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(Application.class);
}
}
Contoller code:
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/rest/cmscontent")
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I have some experience with EJB and JBoss and know the basics about Webservices, but I'm new to Spring.
So I tried to deploy the example Spring WS project gs-rest-service-complete without any changes. It is running on Spring Boot, but I cannot deploy and access it on an external Tomcat Server.
This is what I did: I installed Spring Tool Suite Version: 3.6.4.RELEASE and
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Thanks, caduta
Finally I found the answer at the bottom of this site:
https://spring.io/blog/2014/03/07/deploying-spring-boot-applications
I had to do three steps to get it running:
change packaging to war in pom.xml.
comment out the declaration of the spring-boot-maven-plugin in pom.xml.
change the Application class to inherit from SpringBootServletInitializer and override method configure. This is necessary to register the application in tomcat.
Now the Application class looks like this:
package hello;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
import org.springframework.boot.context.web.SpringBootServletInitializer;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
#Configuration
#ComponentScan
#EnableAutoConfiguration
public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
private static Class<Application> applicationClass = Application.class;
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(applicationClass, args);
}
#Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(applicationClass);
}
}

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A general question about building a war from a spring boot application and running it in a standalone servlet container. The documentation I've seems seems at odds with examples on Stack Overflow.
The answer here shows the way I read of doing this a couple of months ago. I read this here, but the guide seems to have changed losing the actual example app.
Here the "configure" method references the main spring boot Application.class.
public class WebInitializer extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
#Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(Application.class);
}
}
There are also these posts here and here that show the "configure" method referring to the SpringBootServletInitializer sub class itself.
public class BootStrap extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(BootStrap.class, args);
}
#Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(
SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(BootStrap.class);
}
}
and also there is a main method.
Also the spring-boot-sample-traditional  example app at https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/master/spring-boot-samples, which shows "WAR packaging"
does it differently
public class WebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {.........
I was wondering is there are issues with choosing over these different ways of seemingly achieving the same thing in spring boot? Or do they all work equally as well and are interchangeable?
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spring-boot-sample-traditional illustrates the use of web.xml to Bootstrap a Spring Boot application. Generally speaking, this isn't a recommended approach unless you're stuck on a Servlet 2.5 container. The use of WebMvcConfigurerAdapter has nothing to do with WAR packaging. Take a look at its web.xml to see the relevant pieces of configuration.
Use Spring Initializr
http://start.spring.io/
Choose your project type (Gradle or Maven) and Packaging as war.
Add Web as dependency and Generate the project.
This will bootstrap your app with the "correct" way.

Production equivalent to Spring Boot EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer

My question relates to Spring Boot and how to configure error pages in a production web app running in cloudfoundry.
In the Spring IO Sagan reference application, I noticed in the MvcConfig, the following code:
#Configuration
public static class ErrorConfig implements EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer {
#Override
public void customize(ConfigurableEmbeddedServletContainer factory) {
factory.addErrorPages(new ErrorPage(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND, "/404"));
factory.addErrorPages(new ErrorPage(HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, "/500"));
}
}
Is this configuration used in the cloud too? If so why is it named: EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer? If not what is the equivalent for the cloud?
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The "embedded" in the name of EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer refers to the fact that the servlet container is embedded in your application's executable jar file. It's the recommended approach for cloud deployment.

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