Deploying Spring Boot as fat war

Application.java

// The inheritance of SpringBootServletInitializer is necessary for the war-Deployment-ability
@ComponentScan("de.codecentric.somepackage")
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@Configuration
public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {

    private static Class<Application> applicationClass = Application.class;
	
    @Override
    protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder applicationBuilder) {
        return applicationBuilder.sources(applicationClass);
    }
	
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }    
}