SpringBootServletInitializer not working on tomcat server - spring-boot

Question

I'm trying to run my Spring Boot application on a local Tomcat 8 server, but can't get it to run. It works fine in Eclipse and mvn spring-boot:run.
I added the SpringBootServletInitializer and changed the pom.xml as recommended. But it seems that it never runs.
Here is the main class:
#SpringBootApplication
public class SasuApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
#Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(SasuApplication.class);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(SasuApplication.class, args);
}
}
And here is my pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>net.sverin.poc</groupId>
<artifactId>sasu</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>sasu</name>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.3.3.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>sasu</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>repackage</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
What am I missing?

Answer 1

Old question I know, but I just had this problem with Spring Boot 2.0.3 and Tomcat 8.5. My solution was to remove the <absolute-ordering> element from my web.xml file.

Answer 2

Another reason could be Tomcat version.
Spring boot does not work with Tomcat 10 #22414

Answer 3

Perhaps the problem is in the Java version and environment variables...
check JRE_HOME, after I set to 1.8 it started working