Monthly Archive for: ‘December, 2015’

Creating colorful Banners for Spring Boot Applications

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Often it is nice if a service provides its own banner. Then you can easily recognize the start of the service, even when you just take a quick glimpse. Its even nicer if the banner could provide colors, just in case you have a log or a terminal that supports colored output. With the release 1.3.0 of Spring Boot it is possible to display colorful banners.

For my Chatty demo, I quickly created a banner using an ASCII art generator, like http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Graffiti&t=Chatty. if you save it in a file named banner.txt and put it under src/main/resources, it would be displayed like:

chatty-banner1

With a little bit of ANSI colors I got

chatty-banner2

You find the current Chatty banner.txt here.

If you want to have it really colorful, you could create a banner like

chatty-banner3

You find the source for the above banner.txt here.

All in all, it was fun creating a new banner for my Spring Boot based demo service.