From 0ff511d978c273a8eae317ecf9f4f1b98e2efb07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Syer <dsyer@pivotal.io>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 15:50:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Catch Throwable instead of Exception in Spring Application

...so that application startup that fails because of an Error (for
instance NoClassDefFoundError) won't be swallowed.

Fixes gh-1645
---
 .../main/java/org/springframework/boot/SpringApplication.java | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/SpringApplication.java b/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/SpringApplication.java
index b307aceaa5c..147239f69dc 100644
--- a/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/SpringApplication.java
+++ b/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/SpringApplication.java
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ public class SpringApplication {
 			}
 			return context;
 		}
-		catch (Exception ex) {
+		catch (Throwable ex) {
 			try {
 				for (SpringApplicationRunListener runListener : runListeners) {
 					finishWithException(runListener, context, ex);
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ public class SpringApplication {
 	}
 
 	private void finishWithException(SpringApplicationRunListener runListener,
-			ConfigurableApplicationContext context, Exception exception) {
+			ConfigurableApplicationContext context, Throwable exception) {
 		try {
 			runListener.finished(context, exception);
 		}