= Spring Boot Maven Plugin Documentation
Stephane Nicoll, Andy Wilkinson
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== Introduction

The Spring Boot Maven Plugin provides Spring Boot support in https://maven.org[Apache Maven].
It allows you to package executable jar or war archives, run Spring Boot applications, generate build information and start your Spring Boot application prior to running integration tests.

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