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Robert Scholte commented on SUREFIRE-1198: ------------------------------------------ IIUC the Spring Boot jar is a jar-in-name-only: it doesn't follow the specifications of a jar, classes are not in the root but in a subdirectory. I assume you're using a custom classloader to execute this jar, which means that the maven-surefire-plugin should do the same. > Failsafe does not allow to configure the jar file to use > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SUREFIRE-1198 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1198 > Project: Maven Surefire > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Stephane Nicoll > > See [this Spring Boot > issue|https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/4510#issuecomment-159448634] > It seems that SUREFIRE-855 does not allow {{target/classes}} to be used > anymore. Is there a reason why this behaviour was completely removed in > favour of only the jar file? > It would be nice if we had an option to chose between the two (defaulting to > the jar) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)