Spring Boot without the web server

Question

I have a simple Spring Boot application that gets messages from a JMS queue and saves some data to a log file, but does not need a web server. Is there any way of starting S

Answer 1

if you want to run spring boot without a servlet container, but with one on the classpath (e.g. for tests), use the following, as described in the spring boot documentation:

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
public class MyClass{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws JAXBException {
                 SpringApplication app = new SpringApplication(MyClass.class);
         app.setWebEnvironment(false); //<<<<<<<<<
         ConfigurableApplicationContext ctx = app.run(args);
    }
}

also, I just stumbled across this property:

spring.main.web-environment=false