How to access a Spring Boot Application's name programmatically?

Question

I've defined an application name using the bootstrap.yml file in my spring boot application.

spring:
  application:
    name: abc

How can i get this application name during runtime/programmatically ?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31429761/how-to-access-a-spring-boot-applications-name-programmatically

Answer 1

You should be able to use the @Value annotation to access any property you set in a properties/YAML file:

@Value("${spring.application.name}")
private String appName;