Stopping Your Spring Boot Server

Before you start cleaning up your environment, it’s essential to stop your server properly. Here’s how you can stop a server using Eclipse and the Spring Boot application:.

Stopping a Server in Eclipse

You can stop the server from the Servers view in Eclipse:

1. In the Servers view (Window > Show View > Other > Server > Servers > OK), select the server that you want to stop.
2. Click the Stop the server icon in the toolbar. The status of the server in the Servers view will change to Stopped.

If the server fails to stop, you can terminate the process manually:

1. Switch to the Debug perspective.
2. In the Process view, select the server process that you want to stop.
3. Click the Terminate icon in the toolbar.

Note: When terminating a server, the server process will end abruptly without going through the normal shutdown routine, such as calling the destroy() method on a servlet.

Stopping a Spring Boot Application

To stop a Spring Boot application, you can gracefully shut down the application using the SpringApplication.exit() method. Here is an example:

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;

@SpringBootApplication
public class Application {

    private static ConfigurableApplicationContext context;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        context = SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }

    public static void stop() {
        SpringApplication.exit(context, () -> 0);
    }
}

To stop the application, you can call the stop() method:

public class StopApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Application.stop();
    }
}

For more information on managing Spring Boot applications, you can refer to the official Spring Boot documentation.

Maven Cleanup Tip

If you encounter issues during the Maven clean process, you may try adding the following parameter to avoid build failure:

-Dmaven.clean.failOnError=false

This setting can be found in the Maven FAQ.

This version includes the steps for stopping a server in Eclipse, code snippets for stopping a Spring Boot application, and an additional tip for handling Maven clean errors, along with an external link for more information.