Choosing embedded servlet containers

If we decide that we want to use Jetty as our servlet container, we will need to add a Jetty starter to our build file.

How to do it...

1. As Tomcat already comes as a transitive dependency of Spring Boot, we will need to exclude it from our build dependency tree by adding the following to build.gradle:

configurations { 
  compile.exclude module: "spring-boot-starter-tomcat" 
}

2. We will also need to add a compile dependency to our build dependencies on Jetty:

compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jetty")

3. To fix the compiler errors, we will need to remove the bean declaration of Tomcat's RemoteIpFilter from our WebConfiguration class, as the Tomcat...