Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How to do it...

1. In the DbCountAutoConfiguration class, we will add an @ConditionalOnMissingBean annotation to the dbCountRunner(...) method, as follows:

@Bean 
@ConditionalOnMissingBean 
public DbCountRunner    dbCountRunner(Collection<CrudRepository> repositories) { 
  return new DbCountRunner(repositories); 
} 

2. We will also need to add a dependency on the spring-boot-autoconfigure artifact to the dependencies section of the db-count-starter/build.gradle file:

compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigure:2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT")

3. Now, let's start the application by running ./gradlew clean bootRun in order to verify that we will still see the same output in the console logs as we did in the previous recipe
4. If we start the application ...