Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How to do it...

1. Building a default self-executing JAR file is very easy; actually, it is done automatically once we execute the ./gradlew clean bootJar command.
2. We can proceed to launch the created application simply by invoking ./build/libs/bookpub-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar.

3. In an enterprise environment, it is rare that we are satisfied with the default JVM launch arguments as we often need to tweak the memory settings, GC configurations, and even pass the startup system properties in order to ensure that we are using the desired version of the XML parser or a proprietary implementation of class loader or security manager. To accomplish those needs, we will modify the default launch.script file to add support for the JVM options. Let's start ...