When you application starts you should see something similar to the following:
<!--FIXME: short instructions for Mac.-->
```
. ____ _ __ _ _
/\\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __ __ _ \ \ \ \
( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \
\\/ ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| | ) ) ) )
' |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / /
=========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/
Spring Boot (v0.5.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT)
## A basic project
2013-07-31 00:08:16.117 INFO 56603 --- [ main] o.s.b.s.app.SampleApplication : Starting SampleApplication v0.1.0 on mycomputer with PID 56603 (/apps/myapp.jar started by pwebb)
2013-07-31 00:08:16.166 INFO 56603 --- [ main] ationConfigEmbeddedWebApplicationContext : Refreshing org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.AnnotationConfigEmbeddedWebApplicationContext@6e5a8246: startup date [Wed Jul 31 00:08:16 PDT 2013]; root of context hierarchy
```
If you are using Maven create a really simple `pom.xml` with 2 dependencies:
By default `INFO` logging messages will shown, including some relevant startup information
such as the user that started the application.
`pom.xml`
### Customizing SpringApplication
If the SpringApplication defaults aren't to your taste you can instead create a local
instance and customize it. For example, to turn off the banner you would write: