Managing Spring Boot application
Spring Boot is a brand new application framework from Spring. It allows fabulously quick development and rapid prototyping (even including CLI ). One of its main features is to work from single "uber jar" file. By "uber jar" I mean that all dependencies, even an application server like Tomcat or Jetty are packed into a single file. In that we can start web application by typing java -jar application.jar The only thing we're missing is the managing script. And now I want to dive into that topic. Of course to do anything more than starting our application we need to know its PID. Spring Boot has a solution named ApplicationPidListener . To use it we need to tell SpringApplication we want to include this listener. And there are to ways to achieve that.