Spring Boot Basics

Spring boot application comes with default banner which shows up first when you start your application.

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 :: Spring Boot ::        (v2.1.3.RELEASE)

You can replace above banner with your self made custom banner in following two easy steps:-

Spring Boot Application converts any command line arguments starting with --, such as --spring.profiles.active=dev to a property by default and adds them to the Spring Environment. Command line properties always take precedence over other property sources.

If you do not want command line properties to be added to the Environment, you can disable them from SpringBootApplication main method as follows:-

Spring boot web application using embedded server by default runs on port 8080. Following are the ways to change default server port from 8080 to say 9090

Follow any of the given five ways to change server port:-

You would have seen below spring boot banner when starting a spring boot application

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 /\\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __  __ _ \ \ \ \
( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \
 \\/  ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| |  ) ) ) )
  '  |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / /
 =========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/
 :: Spring Boot ::        (v2.1.3.RELEASE)

There are multiple ways to disable spring boot banner as follows: