Shutting Down Spring Boot Applications
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This article will explain ways to shutdown a spring boot application 'cleanly' - This is different from a graceful shutdown at the application level, where application may need to perform certain actions or wait for a certain period of time to gracefully respond to current requests or to end current processing. The same steps as described above can be followed to kill the process. The steps can also be automated via Batch Scripting in Windows/MS-DOS or using the 'ApplicationPidFileWriter' as shown below.