Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

How to do it...

We will start by enhancing our BookPub project with base Spring Cloud modules by adding them to the main build configuration:

1. Add the following content to the build.gradle file located at the root of the project:

... 
apply plugin: 'docker' 
 
dependencyManagement { 
    imports { 
        mavenBom 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:Finchley.BUILD-SNAPSHOT' 
    } 
} 
 
jar { 
    baseName = 'bookpub' 
    version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT' 
} 
 
... 
 
dependencies { 
    ... 
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools") 
    compile("org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-context") 
    compile("org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-commons") 
    runtime("com.h2database:h2") 
    ... 
}

2. Start the application by running ./gradlew clean bootRun
3. After the application ...