spring data jpa: only for web application development?

Question

I want to get myself more familiar with Spring Data & Spring Boot. I have looked at examples and couldn't find one that is not used by running it on a server like tomcat etc.

Is it possible to develop a simple client application that just talks to the db and runs on an OS by using spring data or spring boot?

Answer 1

I get a sense that your question is rather:

Can spring boot be run without a web container?

Simply start your spring boot app in a non-web environment:

new SpringApplicationBuilder() //
    .sources(SpringBootApp.class)//
    .web(false)
    .run(args);

Also, you obviously should not add the spring-boot-starter-web dependency.

Without web(false), spring boot launches a web container if it finds one in the classpath. web(false) ensure that it does happens.

spring data jpa: only for web application development?

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