From 7d2ea8fb75cda7993e7911b449e496f8715cc840 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Wilkinson Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 14:34:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document project names that are excluded from triggering a restart Closes gh-4673 --- spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/using-spring-boot.adoc | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/using-spring-boot.adoc b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/using-spring-boot.adoc index f47eee7e6f8..acaba008e6d 100644 --- a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/using-spring-boot.adoc +++ b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/using-spring-boot.adoc @@ -965,6 +965,10 @@ NOTE: DevTools relies on the application context's shutdown hook to close it dur restart. It will not work correctly if you have disabled the shutdown hook ( `SpringApplication.setRegisterShutdownHook(false)`). +NOTE: When deciding if an entry on the classpath should trigger a restart when it changes, +DevTools automatically ignores projects named `spring-boot`, `spring-boot-devtools`, +`spring-boot-autoconfigure`, `spring-boot-actuator`, and `spring-boot-starter`. + [[using-spring-boot-restart-vs-reload]] .Restart vs Reload ****