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Mastering Spring Cloud
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Mastering Spring Cloud

by Piotr Mińkowski
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Developer tools

Spring Boot offers some other useful tools for developers. The really cool thing for me is that the application is automatically restarted whenever files on the project classpath change. If you use Eclipse as your IDE, the only thing you have to do to enable it is to add the spring-boot-devtools dependency to the Maven pom.xml. Then, try to change something in one of your classes and save it. The application automatically restarts, and it takes much less than stopping and starting in the standard way. When I start our sample application, it takes about 9 seconds, and automatic restart takes only 3 seconds:

<dependency>    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>    <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId> <optional>true</optional> ...
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