diff --git a/entrypoint.sh b/entrypoint.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c08463
--- /dev/null
+++ b/entrypoint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo "The application will start in ${START_SLEEP}s..." && sleep ${START_SLEEP}
+exec java ${JAVA_OPTS} -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom -jar "${HOME}/app.jar" "$@"
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8afd1d4..4c387c0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 	<groupId>com.myapps</groupId>
 	<artifactId>demoKafka</artifactId>
 	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-	<packaging>war</packaging>
+	<packaging>jar</packaging>
 	<name>demoKafka</name>
 	<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
 	<url/>