Spring Boot Daemon Demo

A simple Spring Boot web app that returns "Hello world!" when you access its root endpoint. The real purpose of this app is to demonstrate how build it as an RPM/DEB package, and to install and run it as an init.d daemon. The build.gradle handles all of this heavy lifting, as well as some of the conventions of Spring Boot 1.3.2. Please see my blog post for more detailed information.

To build

./gradlew clean build

To do a complete package (rpm/deb) build

./gradlew clean build buildRpm

and/or

./gradlew clean build buildDeb

To run

./gradlew clean bootRun

Once the application is running, navigate to http://localhost:8080/ in your browser (or use curl or any HTTP client) and you should see the text "Hello world!".

To generate and Eclipse or IntelliJ Idea project

./gradlew eclipse

and/or

./gradlew idea