if someone knows an alternative I'm up for suggestions 🙂

Use javalin instead #javalin

Honestly, I chose Spring due to its features apart from the Webserver part, also the project is already done so I don't want to rework it 😛

Maybe aws beanstalk

No I don't want cloud, it's just to run locally

Locally? Just run the built jar

Yes but the problem of https://app.slack.com/client/T09229ZC6/C0B8RC352/thread/C0B8RC352-1615590565.044000 Remains

What problem is that - I can't read it. With sprint you should end up with an Uber Jar and you can literally start it by doing

java -jar your_project-0.1.jar

Yes I can, but imagine I have an instance of it already running on my PC, and I'm developing something, when finishing the development, I would need to replace the Jar in the "production" folder and restart the server

I think you are misunderstanding what maven deploy plugin does -> it is deploying artifact to a remote repository (like nexus) vs install plugin that just saves it locally

I guess if I had an application server I could maven deploy to it

You would use different plugin but yes. As suggested by others I'd just run using spring boot plugin (or if you really want to overeengineer it you could run it inside a container and replace containers whenever new version is published)