Use Spring boot only for development - maven

Question

I am kind of newbie to maven configuration and using spring-boot .
I want to use spring boot but I only want it to be active for development, when I deploy the artifact to other environments like QA or Production I want to generate a war, and I dont want to have any spring-boot dependecy.
How could I accomplish this ?
This is my current 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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>xxxxx</groupId>
<artifactId>xxxxx</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>xxxxxxx</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<spring.version>4.2.0.RELEASE</spring.version>
<jackson.version>2.6.0</jackson.version>
<slf4j.version>1.7.12</slf4j.version>
</properties>
<!--
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
-->
<dependencies>
<!-- Spring dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>${jackson.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>${slf4j.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!--
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
<version>1.7.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
<version>${jaxb-api.version}</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
</build>
</project>
I have heard a bit about maven profiles , but I am not sure how it works, and if it is the best solutions for this use case. Basically what I want, It is to introduce spring-boot dependencies only for development stage and keep the current ones for production and qa stages.
Thanks!

Answer 1

You really can't have a dynamic parent. However, just setting spring boot as parent will not bring you any dependencies, it will only provide you access to the properties and dependencyManagement and will help you manage dependency versions easier.