Creating Bean only for embedded tomcat or embedded server

Question

I want @Bean to be created if application is running in embedded container. That bean should not be created if application is run on external tomcat. Is there any way we can create @Conditional annotation to create bean only if application is running in embedded tomcat.

Answer 1

Rather than using a custom condition, you could use a Spring profile that's only enabled when you're using an embedded container. When you deploy a Spring Boot application to Tomcat its main method isn't run, making it a good place to enable the profile that you only want to be active in the embedded case.

Something like this:

@SpringBootApplication
public class So34924050Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {

    @Bean
    @Profile("embedded")
    public EmbeddedOnlyBean embeddedOnlyBean() {
        return new EmbeddedOnlyBean();
    }

    @Override
    protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
        return application.sources(So34924050Application.class);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new SpringApplicationBuilder(So34924050Application.class).profiles("embedded").run(args);
    }
}