Spring Shell uses a CommandLineRunner blocking the main thread in order to run the interactive communication with the user. Other CommandLineRunners without any defined @Order or a lower priority, will not be executed before...

Eager loading increases performance and thus is useful in production environments. But this conditional behaviour can also lead to works-on-my-machine moments.

Besides making the collection of objects available through 16 more methods get added to the model automatically.

Members of a class are retrieved via sending message to the instance object. This means, accessing a property is the same as invoking a method with the same name. This can be used as a useful…