If you ever used Jenkin CI server, you have probably seen their super easy one-line instruction to get started: java -jar jenkins.war. Now that's one awesome way to get your users to try out your product! In this article, I will show you how to make a WAR file self executable just like above. Before I do that, let me tell you a little web app that I made, and then I will show how I converted it in
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