Not something we directly support but teams have done this in Spring Boot etc. It should be possible, see if this thread helps: https://github.com/intuit/karate/issues/520
Also you may not need JUnit also: https://github.com/intuit/karate/issues/427
And see the sample project in this ticket as an example: https://github.com/intuit/karate/issues/529
EDIT – in 1.0 onwards we hope that class-loading from spring-boot JAR files is more reliable: https://github.com/intuit/karate/issues/751