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Spring Boot 2.0 Cookbook

You're reading from   Spring Boot 2.0 Cookbook Configure, test, extend, deploy, and monitor your Spring Boot application both outside and inside the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787129825
Length 286 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Spring Boot 2. Configuring Web Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Web Framework Behavior Tuning 4. Writing Custom Spring Boot Starters 5. Application Testing 6. Application Packaging and Deployment 7. Health Monitoring and Data Visualization 8. Spring Boot DevTools 9. Spring Cloud 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using custom @Enable annotations to toggle configuration

Allowing Spring Boot to automatically evaluate the classpath and detected configurations that are found there makes it very quick and easy to get a simple application going. However, there are times when we want to provide the configuration classes but require consumers of the starter library to explicitly enable such a configuration, rather than relying on Spring Boot to decide automatically if it should be included or not.

We will modify our previous recipe to make the starter be enabled via a meta-annotation rather than using the spring.factories route.

How to do it...

  1. First, we will comment out the content of the spring.factories file located in db-count-starter...
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