My Spring Boot application is not a web server, but it's a server using custom protocol (using Camel in this case).
But Spring Boot immediately stops (gracefully) after started. How do I prevent this?
I'd like the app to stop if Ctrl+C or programmatically.
@CompileStatic
@Configuration
class CamelConfig {
@Bean
CamelContextFactoryBean camelContext() {
final camelContextFactory = new CamelContextFactoryBean()
camelContextFactory.id = 'camelContext'
camelContextFactory
}
}
As of Apache Camel 2.17 there is a cleaner answer. To quote http://camel.apache.org/spring-boot.html:
To keep the main thread blocked so that Camel stays up, either include the spring-boot-starter-web dependency, or add camel.springboot.main-run-controller=true to your application.properties or application.yml file.
You will want the following dependency too:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
<version>2.17.0</version>
</dependency>
Clearly replace <version>2.17.0</version> or use the camel BOM to import dependency-management information for consistency.