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 Simple "vanilla" Spring Cloud app. Just a web app with 
-Cloud context features (/restart, /refresh etc.)
+Cloud context features (/restart, /refresh etc.). Useful
+for testing dependency conflicts between Spring Cloud
+and Spring Boot.