Why does my Spring Boot web app not run completely in Gradle?

Question

I've been trying to set up a new Spring Boot Web application using the following command:

spring init --java-version=1.7 --build=gradle --packaging=war --groupId=me.psychopunch.lab.springboot --artifactId=sample --name=quickstart sample

However, when I trying running the generated code using: gradle bootRun, I build does not complete, and does not throw error either. I only get:

...
2016-01-11 22:44:28.127  INFO 3579 --- [           main] o.s.j.e.a.AnnotationMBeanExporter        : Registering beans for JMX exposure on startup
2016-01-11 22:44:28.260  INFO 3579 --- [           main] s.b.c.e.t.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer : Tomcat started on port(s): 8080 (http)
2016-01-11 22:44:28.266  INFO 3579 --- [           main] com.example.QuickstartApplication        : Started QuickstartApplication in 5.312 seconds (JVM running for 6.091)
> Building 80% > :bootRun

The build gets stuck at around 80%. Sometimes it's 83%, 85%, etc. but it won't complete up to 100%. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

It's actually running that's what the Started QuickstartApplication in 5.312 seconds (JVM running for 6.091) indicate.

Ignore the > Building 80% > :bootRun. When you terminate the spring process some more cleanup things will run in gradle.

I have a pretty big build process, mine prints Started... at 96%. :)

It's perfectly normal.