Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How it works...

As you have probably learned by now, when we add a spring-boot-devtools module as a dependency there is some autoconfiguration magic that takes place to add a number of components. A number of listeners and autoconfigurations extend the application context to handle the code changes and do appropriate restarts and reloads, both local and remote.

In our recipe, we did a quick test to make sure the restart functionality worked and everything had been configured by making a property change in the application.properties file. You have probably noticed that instead of making the change in src/main/resources/application.properties, we made the change to the compiled version located under the build/resources/main directory. The reason ...