[[maven-plugin]]
= Maven Plugin

The Spring Boot Maven Plugin provides Spring Boot support in https://maven.org[Apache Maven].
It allows you to package executable jar or war archives, run Spring Boot applications, generate build information and start your Spring Boot application prior to running integration tests.

To use it, you must use Maven 3.6.3 or later.

In addition to this user guide, xref:api/java/index.html[API documentation] is also available.
