Fetching dependencies from private maven server causes classes to fail to load

When I fetch my maven dependencies from our corporate maven server (Artifactory) instead of maven central, Spring Boot fails to load the classes from those nested jars. Specifically, I get a ClassNotFoundException on SpringApplication. I confirmed the issue has something to do with the paths inside the jar where the nested dependency jars are located by modifying springboot_pkg.sh so that it just drops all the bazel-out and else case deps into the root of BOOT-INF/lib/...When I bazel run with this modification, I get past the error I was seeing.

My only guess as to why it's failing is the special characters in the credentials that rules_jvm_external adds to the Artifactory path are somehow throwing off the Spring class loader. Ultimately this is probably a bug in Spring, but I think it would be easier to find a fix here.

For more context see discussion https://github.com/salesforce/rules_spring/discussions/267

Start with springboot_pkg.sh and reproduce the failure using bazel run with dependencies fetched from the private Artifactory server. Compare the nested-jar paths with the modified script that places bazel-out and else-case dependencies at the root of BOOT-INF/lib/, then use discussion 267 for context; done means SpringApplication and other nested dependency classes load successfully.