diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e5a9405..4378c34 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 	<groupId>com.khoubyari</groupId>
 	<artifactId>spring-boot-rest-example</artifactId>
 	<version>0.5.0</version>
-	<packaging>war</packaging>
+	<packaging>jar</packaging>
 	<description>Example project demonstrating REST APIs implemented using Spring Boot, in-memory database, embedded Tomcat, Swagger, JsonPath, Hamcrest and MockMVC</description>
 
 	<parent>