DevTools in Spring Boot 1.3
Spring Boot 1.3 will ship with a brand new module called spring-boot-devtools. The aim of this module is to try and improve the development-time experience when working on Spring Boot applications.
To use the module you simply need to add it as a dependency in your Maven POM:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
or your Gradle build file:
dependencies {
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools")
}
Once included, the spring-boot-devtools module provides a number of nice features that we cover below (If you can't be bother to read the text, skip to the end of the post for a short video…
