How to execute Cucumber Spring Boot Packaged Jar from command line?

Question

I am fairly new to cucumber-jvm world. Trying to package cucumber spring boot app as Jar. app runs fine from Eclipse. But when I package as executable jar it fails with Exception :

Exception in Main Thread, No backend Module found. Make sure that you have backend module on CLASSPATH. Kindly help. Thank you.

Answer 1

From: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm/issues/1320

SpringBoot uses a nested jar structure that requires the use of ApplicationContext.getResources to access it transparently. You'll have to create your own instance of the Cucumber runtime and provide it a class loader and resource loader that use the ApplicationContext.