These are core properties that can be configured with any Spring Boot Application. These properties are already configured in Spring Boot with the given default value.

Note: In your application, You don’t need to add all these values in your application.proprties/ application.YAML file. You just need to add only those values which you want to change/override.

See Also:

• Spring Boot: Web Application Properties
• Spring Boot: Data Configuration Properties
• Spring Boot: Security, OAUTH2 and SSO Configuration Properties
• Spring Boot: Integration Platform Properties
• Spring Boot: DevTools Properties

Banner Properties

Name	Default Value	Description
banner.charset	UTF-8	Banner file encoding.
banner.location	classpath:banner.txt	Banner file location.
banner.image.location	classpath:banner.gif	Banner image file location, also use jpg/png.
banner.image.width	76	Width of the banner image in chars.
banner.image.height		Height of the banner image in chars.
banner.image.margin	2	Left hand image margin in chars.
banner.image.invert	false	If images need to inverted for dark terminal themes.

Logging Properties

Name	Default Value	Description
logging.config		Location of the logging configuration file. For instance `classpath:logback.xml` for Logback
logging.exception-conversion-word	%wEx	Conversion word used when logging exceptions.
logging.file		Log file name. For instance `myapp.log`
logging.level.*		Log levels severity mapping. For instance logging.level.org.springframework=DEBUG
logging.path		Location of the log file. For instance ‘/var/log’
logging.pattern.console		Appender pattern for output to the console. Only supported with the default logback setup.
logging.pattern.file		Appender pattern for output to the file. Only supported with the default logback setup.
logging.pattern.level		Appender pattern for log level (default %5p). Only supported with the default logback setup.
logging.register-shutdown-hook	false	Register a shutdown hook on time of initialization for the logging system.

AOP Properties

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.aop.auto	true	Add @EnableAspectJAutoProxy.
spring.aop.proxy-target-class	false	false when Standard Java interface-based proxies. true when subclass-based (CGLIB) proxies.

Application Identity Properties

Spring Boot load these properties in ContextIdApplicationContextInitializer class.

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.application.index		Application index.
spring.application.name		Application name

Admin Properties

Spring Boot load these properties in SpringApplicationAdminJmxAutoConfiguration class.

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.application.admin.enabled	false	Enable admin features for the application.
spring.application.admin.jmx-name		org.springframework.boot:type=Admin,name=SpringApplication #JMX name of the application admin MBean.

Auto Configuration Properties

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.autoconfigure.exclude		Auto-configuration classes to exclude.

Spring Core Properties

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.beaninfo.ignore	true	Skip search of BeanInfo classes.

Spring Cache Properties

Spring Boot load these properties in CacheProperties class.

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.cache.cache-names		If supported by cache manager, then mentioned Comma-separated list.
spring.cache.caffeine.spec		The specification to use to create caches. For Example: Check CaffeineSpec for more details on the spec format.
spring.cache.couchbase.expiration	0	By default the entries never expire(You can write in milliseconds).
spring.cache.ehcache.config		Configuration file location to initialize EhCache.
spring.cache.guava.spec		The specification to use to create caches.For Example: Check CacheBuilderSpec for more details on the spec format.
spring.cache.hazelcast.config		Configuration file location to initialize Hazelcast.
spring.cache.infinispan.config		Configuration file location to initialize Infinispan.
spring.cache.jcache.config		Configuration file location to initialize the cache manager
spring.cache.jcache.provider		Fully qualified name of the Cache Provider implementation to use to retrieve the JSR-107 compliant cache manager. It only required if more than one JSR-107 implementation is available on the classpath.
spring.cache.type		Cache type, auto-detected according to the environment.

Spring Config Properties

Spring Boot load these properties in ConfigFileApplicationListener class when using environment properties.

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.config.location		Config file locations
spring.config.name	application	Config file name.

HAZELCAST Properties

Spring Boot load these properties in HazelcastProperties class.

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.hazelcast.config		The location of the configuration file to initialize Hazelcast.

Project Information Properties

Spring Boot load these properties in ProjectInfoProperties class.

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.info.build.location	classpath:META-INF/build-info.properties	Location for generated build-info.properties file.
spring.info.git.location	classpath:git.properties	Location generforated git.properties file.

JMX Properties

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.jmx.default-domain		JMX domain name.
spring.jmx.enabled	true	Expose management beans for JMX domain.
spring.jmx.server	mbeanServer	MBeanServer bean name.

Email Properties

Spring Boot load these properties in MailProperties class.

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.mail.default-encoding	UTF-8	Default MimeMessage encoding.
spring.mail.host		SMTP server host. For instance ‘smtp.example.com’
spring.mail.jndi-name		Session JNDI name. When set, takes precedence to others mail settings.
spring.mail.password		Login password of the SMTP server.
spring.mail.port		SMTP server port.
spring.mail.properties.*		Additional JavaMail session properties
spring.mail.protocol	smtp	Protocol used by the SMTP server.
spring.mail.test-connection	false	Mail server is available on startup.
spring.mail.username		Login user of the SMTP server.

Application Settings Properties

Spring Boot load these properties in SpringApplication class.

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.main.banner-mode	console	Mode for display the banner when the application startup.
spring.main.sources		Sources (class name, package name or XML resource location) in the ApplicationContext.
spring.main.web-environment		Run the application in a web environment. it auto-detected by default.

File Encoding Properties

Spring Boot load these properties in FileEncodingApplicationListener class.

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.mandatory-file-encoding		Expected character encoding the application must use.

Internationalization Properies

Spring Boot load these properties in MessageSourceAutoConfiguration class.

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.messages.always-use-message-format	false	Setting whether to always apply the MessageFormat rules, parsing even messages without arguments.
spring.messages.basename	messages	Comma-separated list of basenames and each following the ResourceBundle convention.
spring.messages.cache-seconds	-1	Loaded resource bundle files cache expiration, in seconds. When set to -1, bundles are cached forever.
spring.messages.encoding	UTF-8	Message bundles encoding.
spring.messages.fallback-to-system-locale	true	Setting to fall back to the system Locale if no files for a specific Locale have been found.

Output Properties

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.output.ansi.enabled	detect	Configure the ANSI output.

PID FILE Properties

Spring Boot load these properties in ApplicationPidFileWriter class.

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.pid.fail-on-write-error		Fail if ApplicationPidFileWriter is used but not write the PID file.
spring.pid.file		Location to PID file to write. if ApplicationPidFileWriter is used.

Profile Properties

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.profiles.active		A comma-separated list of active profiles.
spring.profiles.include		Unconditionally activate the specified comma separated profiles

SENDGRID Properties

Spring Boot load these properties in SendGridAutoConfiguration class.

Name	Default Value	Description
spring.sendgrid.api-key		SendGrid api key (alternative to username/password)
spring.sendgrid.username		SendGrid account username
spring.sendgrid.password		SendGrid account password
spring.sendgrid.proxy.host		SendGrid proxy host
spring.sendgrid.proxy.port		SendGrid proxy

References

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/1.4.x/reference/html/common-application-properties.html