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How to redeploy spring boot application on STS built-in server

I have a Spring Boot Gradle application with apply plugin: 'war'. I run the application on STS by right click > Run As > Spring Boot App. It runs fine. Now I make a change to the code and I want to redeploy (and better automatically). The only way I know now is to stop the server and run again. Is there any faster solution?

Solution

  • Spring-boot provide something called devtools which is a very neat feature.

    Include this starter on your gradle build

    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools")

    This will automatically restart whenever files on the classpath changes. So you don't have to manually stop and start server.

    you can see more details here.