BAEL-2351 programmatically restart spring boot application

spring-boot-ops/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restart/Application.java

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+package com.baeldung.restart;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.ApplicationArguments;
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;
+import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
+
+@SpringBootApplication
+public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {   
+
+    private static ConfigurableApplicationContext context;
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        context = SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
+    }
+
+    public static void restart() {
+        ApplicationArguments args = context.getBean(ApplicationArguments.class);
+
+        Thread thread = new Thread(() -> {
+            context.close();
+            context = SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args.getSourceArgs());
+        });
+
+        thread.setDaemon(false);
+        thread.start();
+    }
+
+}