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

You can just close the app according to https://spring.io/guides/gs/async-method/. Although this still stars Tomcat, but will stop the app at the end without keeping the tread running.

SpringApplication.run(MyApp.class, args).close();