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Update documentation to remove 'shaded jar' term
Update documentation section that discusses uber jars since it conflates the concepts of the uber jar and the shading of dependencies into jars (which may or may not be true uber jars). Fixes gh-3321
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spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/getting-started.adoc

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@@ -702,8 +702,8 @@ Java does not provide any standard way to load nested jar files (i.e. jar files
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themselves contained within a jar). This can be problematic if you are looking to
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distribute a self-contained application.
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To solve this problem, many developers use "`shaded`" jars. A shaded jar simply packages
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all classes, from all jars, into a single "`uber jar`". The problem with shaded jars is that
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To solve this problem, many developers use "`uber`" jars. An uber jar simply packages
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all classes, from all jars, into a single archive. The problem with this approach is that
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it becomes hard to see which libraries you are actually using in your application. It can
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also be problematic if the the same filename is used (but with different content) in
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multiple jars.

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