I have some Spring Boot 2.1 applications and they are all hosted on Tomcat 8.5 We normally use the following POM.xml structure:
<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId> </dependency> The issue we are facing is about the size, we realized that spring-boot-started takes a lot of MB, while we have another application which is using only: spring-boot-starter-web and spring-boot-starter-tomcat and the size jump down from 50MB to 10MB.
Assuming we only use Tomcat, except for development where we use mvn spring-boot run, what happens if I remove spring-boot-starter? Can I have an application with only spring-boot-starter-web and spring-boot-starter-tomcat but still being able to use mvn spring-boot run during development?
