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 need web functionality in your application (like org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate for REST calls) but you don't want to start a TOMCAT server, just exclude it in the POM:

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-starter-web
    
        
            org.springframework.boot
            spring-boot-starter-tomcat