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Refactor spring-boot-loader to work directly with low level zip data structures, removing the need to read every byte when the application loads. This change was initially driven by the desire to improve tab-completion time when working with the Spring CLI tool. Local tests show CLI startup time improving from ~0.7 to ~0.22 seconds. Startup times for regular Spring Boot applications are also improved, for example, the tomcat sample application now starts 0.5 seconds faster.
Spring Boot - Tools
Spring Boot Tools provides a logical grouping for our various build system plugins, and the modules that support them. We provide a spring-boot-maven-plugin and spring-boot-gradle-plugin for Maven and Gradle respectively.
If you are interested in how we support executable archives, take a look at the spring-boot-loader module. If you need to create executable archives from a different build system, spring-boot-loader-tools may help.