BAEL-2351 programmatically restart spring boot application

spring-boot-ops/src/test/java/com/baeldung/restart/RestartApplicationIntegrationTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.restart;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplate;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
+import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
+
+public class RestartApplicationIntegrationTest {
+    
+    private TestRestTemplate template = new TestRestTemplate();
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenBootApp_whenRestart_thenOk() throws Exception {
+        Application.main(new String[0]);
+        
+        ResponseEntity response = template.exchange("http://localhost:8080/restart", 
+           HttpMethod.POST, null, Object.class);
+        
+        assertEquals(200, response.getStatusCode().value());
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void givenBootApp_whenRestartUsingActuator_thenOk() throws Exception {
+        Application.main(new String[] { "--server.port=8090" });
+        
+        ResponseEntity response = template.exchange("http://localhost:8090/restartApp", 
+           HttpMethod.POST, null, Object.class);
+        
+        assertEquals(200, response.getStatusCode().value());
+    }
+
+}