How to solve springboot app start and shutdown immediately problem

Mar 15, 2017

When we develop multi-module springboot application,the layout is as follows:

1. The project layout

my-test-project
  +module1
    +--pom.xml
    +--src
      +--main
        +--com
          +--example
            +--module1
              +--domain1
                +--Base1.java
              +--Application.java
  +module2
    +--pom.xml
    +--src
      +--main
        +--com
          +--example
            +--module2
              +--Application.java

As you can see , module1 has a package named com.example.module1, and module2 has a package named com.example.module2, and module2 has reference to module1

2. The problem

Now in the module2, we want to use module1’s domain class, we autowire the class object like this:

MyTest.java in module2:

...
@Autowired
private Base1 base1;

add add this to module2’s Application class to expand the module2 to component scan range.

@SpringBootApplication
@ComponentScan("com.example.module1") //let the module2 to scan module1's components.

public class Application {
  ...
}

3. Run the app

Now run the module2, we got this exception

  .   ____          _            __ _ _
 /\\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __  __ _ \ \ \ \
( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \
 \\/  ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| |  ) ) ) )
  '  |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / /
 =========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/
 :: Spring Boot ::        (v1.4.3.RELEASE)

2017-03-14 15:29:13.852  INFO 25350 --- [           main] com.example.module2.Application             : Starting Module2Application on localhost with PID 25350 (started by xxx in /Users/xxx/work/xxx)
2017-03-14 15:29:13.856 DEBUG 25350 --- [           main] com.example.module2.Application             : Running with Spring Boot v1.4.3.RELEASE, Spring v4.3.5.RELEASE
2017-03-14 15:29:13.856  INFO 25350 --- [           main] com.example.module2.Application             : The following profiles are active: dev
2017-03-14 15:29:16.248  INFO 25350 --- [           main] com.example.module2.Application             : Started Module2Application in 2.757 seconds (JVM running for 3.164)

Process finished with exit code 0

The module2 application start and exit without any exception. why?

4. The reason

Because we add componentscan range to @SpringBootApplication ,but the range is not right, the range now:

@SpringBootApplication
@ComponentScan("com.example.module1") //let the module2 to scan module1's components.

public class Application {
  ...
}

the range com.example.module1 is not right,because it must include the com.example.module2 package. It should be :

@SpringBootApplication
@ComponentScan("com.example") //let the module2 to scan module1's components.

public class Application {
  ...
}

we change the package from com.example.module1 to com.example, so it include module1 and module2 packages.

Now run test again, the exception disappeared.

You can find detail documents about the springboot here:

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