SpringBoot Not able to override the mainClass defined in pom.xml with command line flag when running an application via the spring boot maven plugin

I am trying to override the mainClass defined in pom.xml with command-line like this:

mvn spring-boot:run -Dspring-boot.run.main-class=some.other.class

but it does not work. The plugin runs the mainClass defined in pom.xml. I am using version 3.1.4 of spring-boot-maven-plugin. can anyone help with this?

Comment From: scottfrederick

This is standard Maven behavior - values in pom.xml override values provided on the command line. There is some discussion of this in #21536. The Maven plugin documentation shows a technique for overriding options from the command line yourself.

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