How does a Spring Boot console based application work?

Question

If I am developing a rather simple Spring Boot console-based application, I am unsure about the placement of the main execution code. Should I place it in the

Answer 1

You should have a standard loader:

@SpringBootApplication
public class MyDemoApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(MyDemoApplication.class, args);
    }
}

and implement a CommandLineRunner interface with @Component annotation

    @Component
    public class MyRunner implements CommandLineRunner {

       @Override    
       public void run(String... args) throws Exception {

      }
   }

@EnableAutoConfiguration will do the usual SpringBoot magic.

UPDATE:

As @jeton suggests the laters Springboot implements a straight:

spring.main.web-environment=false
spring.main.banner-mode=off

See docs at 72.2