How to prevent auto start of tomcat/jetty in Spring Boot when I only want to use RestTemplate

Question

I want to use RestTemplate/TestRestTemplate by including the artifact in a SpringBoot application

    
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Answer 1

Since Spring Boot 2.0.0 this property is deprecated and following is the new way:

spring.main.web-application-type=none

This change is because Spring Boot the support for reactive server.