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How to correctly add Vaadin framework into my Spring Boot project?

I am trying to integrate what is done in this official Vaadin video tutorial (implement back end push notification) into my Spring Boot project.
I am finding some problem trying to understand how to correctly integrate Vaadin framework into my existing Spring Boot project pom.xml file in order to have all the dependencies needed to work.
So basically this is the video tutorial link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5sbGvW3S4I
and this is the related GitHub link of this tutorial example code: https://github.com/marcushellberg/fusion-push-notifications
This is the pom.xml of my already existing Spring Boot project where I need to insert Vaadin framework and the related example project dependencies (needed to implement the desired behavior)
<?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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.5.6</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>com.easydefi</groupId>
<artifactId>GET-USER-WS</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>GET-USER-WS</name>
<description>Microservice that retrieves users from DB</description>
<properties>
<java.version>11</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
<artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Validation -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-validation</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Security -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- JWT -->
<dependency>
<groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
<artifactId>jjwt</artifactId>
<version>0.9.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Lombok -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<version>1.18.22</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-boot-starter</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger-ui</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.modelmapper</groupId>
<artifactId>modelmapper</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>nl.martijndwars</groupId>
<artifactId>web-push</artifactId>
<version>5.1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
<artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
<version>1.68</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-aop</artifactId>
<version>2.6.3</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
In particular this is the pom.xml content of the previous Vaadin example (from the Vaadin GitHub example project repo):
<?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>com.example.application</groupId>
<artifactId>fusion-push-notifications</artifactId>
<name>Project base for Spring Boot and Vaadin Flow</name>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<properties>
<java.version>16</java.version>
<vaadin.version>19.0.8</vaadin.version>
</properties>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.4.5</version>
</parent>
<repositories>
<!-- The order of definitions matters. Explicitly defining central here to make sure it has the highest priority. -->
<!-- Main Maven repository -->
<repository>
<id>central</id>
<url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>vaadin-prereleases</id>
<url>
https://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-prereleases/
</url>
</repository>
<!-- Repository used by many Vaadin add-ons -->
<repository>
<id>Vaadin Directory</id>
<url>https://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-addons</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<!-- The order of definitions matters. Explicitly defining central here to make sure it has the highest priority. -->
<pluginRepository>
<id>central</id>
<url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
<pluginRepository>
<id>vaadin-prereleases</id>
<url>
https://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-prereleases/
</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-bom</artifactId>
<version>${vaadin.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<!-- Replace artifactId with vaadin-core to use only free components -->
<artifactId>vaadin</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.vaadin.artur</groupId>
<artifactId>a-vaadin-helper</artifactId>
<version>1.6.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>nl.martijndwars</groupId>
<artifactId>web-push</artifactId>
<version>5.1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
<artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
<version>1.68</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-validation</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-testbench</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Include JUnit 4 support for TestBench and others -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
<artifactId>hamcrest-core</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
<artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<defaultGoal>spring-boot:run</defaultGoal>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<!-- Clean build and startup time for Vaadin apps sometimes may exceed
the default Spring Boot's 30sec timeout. -->
<configuration>
<wait>500</wait>
<maxAttempts>240</maxAttempts>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<!--
Take care of synchronizing java dependencies and imports in
package.json and main.js files.
It also creates webpack.config.js if not exists yet.
-->
<plugin>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${vaadin.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-frontend</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<profiles>
<profile>
<!-- Production mode is activated using -Pproduction -->
<id>production</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${vaadin.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>build-frontend</goal>
</goals>
<phase>compile</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<productionMode>true</productionMode>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>it</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>start-spring-boot</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>start</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>stop-spring-boot</id>
<phase>post-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>stop</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!-- Runs the integration tests (*IT) after the server is started -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<trimStackTrace>false</trimStackTrace>
<enableAssertions>true</enableAssertions>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
</project>
I tried to adapt my original project pom.xml in this way:
<?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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.5.6</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>com.easydefi</groupId>
<artifactId>GET-USER-WS</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>GET-USER-WS</name>
<description>Microservice that retrieves users from DB</description>
<properties>
<java.version>11</java.version>
</properties>
<repositories>
<!-- The order of definitions matters. Explicitly defining central here to make sure it has the highest priority. -->
<!-- Main Maven repository -->
<repository>
<id>central</id>
<url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>vaadin-prereleases</id>
<url>https://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-prereleases/</url>
</repository>
<!-- Repository used by many Vaadin add-ons -->
<repository>
<id>Vaadin Directory</id>
<url>https://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-addons</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<!-- The order of definitions matters. Explicitly defining central here to make sure it has the highest priority. -->
<pluginRepository>
<id>central</id>
<url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
<pluginRepository>
<id>vaadin-prereleases</id>
<url>https://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-prereleases/</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-bom</artifactId>
<version>${vaadin.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
<artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Validation -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-validation</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Security -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- JWT -->
<dependency>
<groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
<artifactId>jjwt</artifactId>
<version>0.9.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Lombok -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<version>1.18.22</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-boot-starter</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger-ui</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.modelmapper</groupId>
<artifactId>modelmapper</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>nl.martijndwars</groupId>
<artifactId>web-push</artifactId>
<version>5.1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
<artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
<version>1.68</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-aop</artifactId>
<version>2.6.3</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Vaadin and push request related dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<!-- Replace artifactId with vaadin-core to use only free components -->
<artifactId>vaadin</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.vaadin.artur</groupId>
<artifactId>a-vaadin-helper</artifactId>
<version>1.6.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>nl.martijndwars</groupId>
<artifactId>web-push</artifactId>
<version>5.1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
<artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
<version>1.68</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-testbench</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
But it seems not work, I am obtaining a lot of error on this new version of my pom.xml
What am I missing? How can I try to correctly add Vaading framework to my original Spring Boot project?

I think the only real thing that is missing is the vaadin.version...
<properties>
<java.version>11</java.version>
<vaadin.version>19.0.8</vaadin.version> <!-- missing -->
</properties>
But you should avoid mixing spring versions, which sometimes can cause some problems.
Example: spring-boot-starter-parent:2.4.5 and spring-boot-starter-aop:2.6.3

Maven adding layers.idx and other spring classes automatically to the war file

I am building a war using maven (mvn clean install), the build is successful but the problem is few spring-boot related jars are getting missed in the war file(I checked using jar tf command) and instead of that many other springboot related classes and layer.idx file is getting added. How to remove these so that they are not included in the war and all other spring related dependencies are added properly. I tried deleting the local maven repo but it didn't worked.
Here is my pom.xml -
pom.xml
<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.meco.test</groupId>
<artifactId>test-service</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>devTest</name>
<description>Development-Project</description>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jersey</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.persistence/javax.persistence-api -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.persistence-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.inject/javax.inject -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
<version>1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.hk2/hk2-api -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.hk2</groupId>
<artifactId>hk2-api</artifactId>
<version>3.0.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.core/jersey-server -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.json/javax.json-api -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.json</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.json-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.json.bind/javax.json.bind-api -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.json.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.json.bind-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/javax.servlet-api -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.ws.rs/javax.ws.rs-api -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
<version>2.1.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.slf4j/slf4j-api -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.sshd/sshd-core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.sshd</groupId>
<artifactId>sshd-core</artifactId>
<version>2.7.0</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.sshd/sshd-common -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.sshd</groupId>
<artifactId>sshd-common</artifactId>
<version>2.7.0</version>
<!-- <scope>test</scope> -->
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler/ecj -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler</groupId>
<artifactId>ecj</artifactId>
<version>4.6.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>demon</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<generateBackupPoms>false</generateBackupPoms>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<release>11</release>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
These files are getting added unnecessarily - (Output of jar tf demon.war) [not the complete output]
org/
org/springframework/
org/springframework/boot/
org/springframework/boot/loader/
org/springframework/boot/loader/ClassPathIndexFile.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/ExecutableArchiveLauncher.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/JarLauncher.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/LaunchedURLClassLoader$DefinePackageCallType.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/LaunchedURLClassLoader$UseFastConnectionExceptionsEnumeration.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/LaunchedURLClassLoader.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/Launcher.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/MainMethodRunner.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/PropertiesLauncher$1.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/PropertiesLauncher$ArchiveEntryFilter.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/PropertiesLauncher$ClassPathArchives.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/PropertiesLauncher$PrefixMatchingArchiveFilter.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/PropertiesLauncher.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/WarLauncher.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/Archive$Entry.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/Archive$EntryFilter.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/Archive.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/ExplodedArchive$AbstractIterator.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/ExplodedArchive$ArchiveIterator.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/ExplodedArchive$EntryIterator.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/ExplodedArchive$FileEntry.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/ExplodedArchive$SimpleJarFileArchive.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/ExplodedArchive.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/JarFileArchive$AbstractIterator.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/JarFileArchive$EntryIterator.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/JarFileArchive$JarFileEntry.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/JarFileArchive$NestedArchiveIterator.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/archive/JarFileArchive.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/data/
org/springframework/boot/loader/data/RandomAccessData.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/data/RandomAccessDataFile$1.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/data/RandomAccessDataFile$DataInputStream.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/data/RandomAccessDataFile$FileAccess.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/data/RandomAccessDataFile.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/AbstractJarFile$JarFileType.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/AbstractJarFile.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/AsciiBytes.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/Bytes.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/CentralDirectoryEndRecord$1.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/CentralDirectoryEndRecord$Zip64End.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/CentralDirectoryEndRecord$Zip64Locator.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/CentralDirectoryEndRecord.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/CentralDirectoryFileHeader.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/CentralDirectoryParser.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/CentralDirectoryVisitor.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/FileHeader.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/Handler.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarEntry.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarEntryCertification.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarEntryFilter.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarFile$1.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarFile$JarEntryEnumeration.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarFile.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarFileEntries$1.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarFileEntries$EntryIterator.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarFileEntries.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarFileWrapper.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarURLConnection$1.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarURLConnection$JarEntryName.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/JarURLConnection.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/StringSequence.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jar/ZipInflaterInputStream.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jarmode/
org/springframework/boot/loader/jarmode/JarMode.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jarmode/JarModeLauncher.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/jarmode/TestJarMode.class
org/springframework/boot/loader/util/
org/springframework/boot/loader/util/SystemPropertyUtils.class
WEB-INF/lib-provided/
WEB-INF/lib-provided/javax.servlet-api-4.0.1.jar
WEB-INF/lib/spring-boot-jarmode-layertools-2.5.2.jar
WEB-INF/layers.idx
I don't know why spring-boot-jarmode-layertools-2.5.2.jar is getting added and few other important jars which are part of the project are missing. These jars are missing -
spring-boot-starter-2.5.2.jar
spring-boot-starter-jersey-2.5.2.jar
spring-boot-starter-json-2.5.2.jar
spring-boot-starter-logging-2.5.2.jar
spring-boot-starter-tomcat-2.5.2.jar
spring-boot-starter-validation-2.5.2.jar
Please help.

First you don't need to execute install because you don't need the artifact in your local repository. You should execute package.
Second you have some plugins that are not needed. (Why did you change the pom.xml that Spring Boot Initializer generated?)
Remove
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<release>11</release>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
Then you have dependencies that will come from the starters anyway
You can remove everything that has the comment
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.persistence/<xy> -->
It looks like you want to use JPA so add the spring-boot-starter-data-jpa dependency.

Application startup failed - Failed to process import candidates for configuration class

I'm receiving this error in the stack trace when I try to run:
java -jar spring-boot-starter-web.jar
From my command line on my build for my jar of my Spring Boot application. I'm not sure what is causing this error. I let IntelliJ do the build of the project.
[main] ERROR org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication - Application
startup failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Failed
to process import candidates for configuration class
[app.ContactRunner]; nested exception is
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No auto configuration classes
found in META-INF/spring.factories. If you are using a custom
packaging, make sure that file is correct.
For reference, the ContactRunner class is just:
#SpringBootApplication
public class ContactRunner {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
SpringApplication.run(ContactRunner.class, args);
}
}
The spring-boot-starter-parent is in the pom.xml as well as the one for the spring-boot-maven-plugin as other people with similar questions have resolved their issue with it. I can't figure out what's happening. Here is my full 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>
<!-- Output to jar format -->
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starters</artifactId>
<version>1.5.7.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>NameProject</artifactId>
<name>Spring Boot Web Starter</name>
<description>Starter for building web, including RESTful, applications using Spring
MVC. Uses Tomcat as the default embedded container
</description>
<url>http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/</url>
<organization>
<name>Pivotal Software, Inc.</name>
<url>http://www.spring.io</url>
</organization>
<properties>
<main.basedir>${basedir}/../..</main.basedir>
</properties>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.4.3.RELEASE</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- JPA Data (for using Repositories, Entities, Hibernate, etc...) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Use MySQL Connector-J -->
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<version>1.5.7.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
<version>1.4.194</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>repackage</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<classifier>spring-boot</classifier>
<mainClass>
app.ContactRunner
</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<testResources>
<testResource>
<directory>src/test/resources</directory>
</testResource>
</testResources>
</build>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>spring-releases</id>
<url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>spring-releases</id>
<url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</project>
I also tried to build the project with mvn clean package but it fails because of duplicate dependencies that I can't seem to remove, as you may see my issues in this questions, so this was trying another route.
Any ideas? The application runs fine in IntelliJ, but won't with a jar.

I think you should use spring-boot-starter-parent in parent tag. And should remove whole dependencyManagement block.

import javax.persistence couldn't be resolved in my first Maven Hibernate Project

I am trying to create my first Maven Project after reading books and articles for a month now :) But the start is not that smooth one like I expected. I have been fiddling with my POM.xml with various dependency artifacts to enable hibernate annotation but nothing seems to be working. I am always getting error that javax.persistence.Entity or any other annotation is not resolved in import.
<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>FirstHibernateExample</groupId>
<artifactId>FirstHibernateExample</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>FirstHibernateExample</name>
<description>This is my first project with Hibernate</description>
<build>
<sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
</resources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>JBoss repository</id>
<url>http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/</url>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>Java.Net</id>
<url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<!-- Javaee API -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
<version>6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.31</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate3</artifactId>
<version>3.2.3.GA</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate annotation -->
<dependency>
<groupId>hibernate-annotations</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>hibernate-commons-annotations</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate library dependecy start -->
<dependency>
<groupId>dom4j</groupId>
<artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate library dependecy end -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
<artifactId>jta</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
Can anybody point me out where I am wrong or what should I do to get my first project running ? Very thanks in advance :)

Finally the below command fixed the issue.
mvn eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSource=true
I found it from below link
http://w3facility.org/question/javax-persistence-sources-where/
Hopefully it will help someone in future :)
EDIT : In another project I just right clicked the error import statement and clicked on fix project setup. It suggested me to add buildpath to javaee-api6.0.jar in M2_REPO which fixed the issue.

repository element

Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.5:deploy (default-deploy) on project mysticpaste: Deployment failed: repository element was not specified in the POM inside distributionManagement element or in -DaltDeploymentRepository=id::layout::url parameter -> [Help 1]
POM.xml
<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>com.mysticcoders</groupId>
<artifactId>mysticpaste</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<!-- TODO project name -->
<name>quickstart</name>
<description></description>
<!-- TODO
<organization>
<name>company name</name>
<url>company url</url>
</organization>
-->
<licenses>
<license>
<name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
<url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
<distribution>repo</distribution>
</license>
</licenses>
<dependencies>
<!-- WICKET DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
<artifactId>wicket</artifactId>
<version>${wicket.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- SPRING DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring</artifactId>
<version>2.5.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>2.5.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>2.5.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>2.5.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>1.2.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate framework -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>
<version>3.2.6.ga</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
<artifactId>jta</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javassist</groupId>
<artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
<version>3.8.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
<!-- MySQL database driver -->
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.9</version>
</dependency>
<!-- OPTIONAL
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.wicket</groupId>
<artifactId>wicket-extensions</artifactId>
<version>${wicket.version}</version>
</dependency>
-->
<!-- LOGGING DEPENDENCIES - LOG4J -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.4.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.14</version>
</dependency>
<!-- JUNIT DEPENDENCY FOR TESTING -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.2</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- JETTY DEPENDENCIES FOR TESTING -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
<version>${jetty.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-util</artifactId>
<version>${jetty.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-management</artifactId>
<version>${jetty.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<filters>
<filter>src/main/filters/filters-${env}.properties</filter>
</filters>
<resources>
<resource>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
<resource>
<filtering>false</filtering>
<directory>src/main/java</directory>
<includes>
<include>**</include>
</includes>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
</resources>
<testResources>
<testResource>
<filtering>false</filtering>
<directory>src/test/java</directory>
<includes>
<include>**</include>
</includes>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</testResource>
</testResources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<properties>
<wicket.version>1.3.5</wicket.version>
<jetty.version>6.1.4</jetty.version>
<env>DEV</env>
</properties>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>DEV</id>
<properties>
<env>DEV</env>
</properties>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>QA</id>
<properties>
<env>QA</env>
</properties>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>PROD</id>
<properties>
<env>PROD</env>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>
</project>

I believe what you are trying to do is deploy the webapp to application server.
And to do this you are using the mvn ... deploy command.
The problem is mvn deploy is meant for deploying the output of your project (artifact) to maven repository. For example to share your classes with other co-workers.
If I'm correct you need some kind of mvn jetty:run or mvn tomcat:run command to do what you want.

Please run mvn help:effective-pom looks like you're missing <distribution> tag or <repositories> tags.
Edit: As Vitaly Polonetsky righty mentioned you should probably just build and start server. I think Jetty is embedded. So try
mvn clean install run:jetty