Adding Custom ASCII Text Banner in Spring Boot Application

You must have seen the text ASCII banner for Spring that is displayed in your Spring boot application when you start it, if you are wondering if you can have your custom banner displayed? well, yeah!! it's possible. All you need to do is,

Steps:

1. Create your ASCII Banner.
2. Save the banner under resources folder as banner.txt

Now when you start your application, you will see your custom banner.

/Users/dev/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-21.0.1/Contents/Home/bin/java -XX:TieredStopAtLevel=1 -Dspring.output.ansi.enabled=always -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dspring.jmx.enabled=true -Dspring.liveBeansView.mbeanDomain -Dspring.application.admin.enabled=true -Dmanagement.endpoints.jmx.exposure.include=* -javaagent:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/lib/idea_rt.jar=49588:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/bin -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.stdout.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.stderr.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath /Users/dev/Documents/Java-Projects/demo/demo/build/classes/java/main:/Users/dev/Documents/Java-Projects/demo/demo/build/resources/main:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter/3.2.3/15f3e03b0fd9570f90bdce9651610cc152534cf4/spring-boot-starter-3.2.3.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-autoconfigure/3.2.3/59db74eb4196885bb5a149417ab1ab51dc9b6952/spring-boot-autoconfigure-3.2.3.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot/3.2.3/b4aa6e3fdc4078fee4a4b9d702d9cc64e3fad1d4/spring-boot-3.2.3.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter-logging/3.2.3/c186015229d7f5cbd30ea99bf903a8cede6d849f/spring-boot-starter-logging-3.2.3.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/jakarta.annotation/jakarta.annotation-api/2.1.1/48b9bda22b091b1f48b13af03fe36db3be6e1ae3/jakarta.annotation-api-2.1.1.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.springframework/spring-core/6.1.4/3b4dde8f55c3d5d4e948de64b866d7bb27e5a8d4/spring-core-6.1.4.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.yaml/snakeyaml/2.2/3af797a25458550a16bf89acc8e4ab2b7f2bfce0/snakeyaml-2.2.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.springframework/spring-context/6.1.4/765316bef55e41e4523f9b2780b8721ce5dd0fe2/spring-context-6.1.4.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/ch.qos.logback/logback-classic/1.4.14/d98bc162275134cdf1518774da4a2a17ef6fb94d/logback-classic-1.4.14.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.apache.logging.log4j/log4j-to-slf4j/2.21.1/d77b2ba81711ed596cd797cc2b5b5bd7409d841c/log4j-to-slf4j-2.21.1.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.slf4j/jul-to-slf4j/2.0.12/eb5f48f782b41cc881b0bf1fb4d88ae2ff6d5b93/jul-to-slf4j-2.0.12.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.springframework/spring-jcl/6.1.4/a244bd674a5431dfdce68d28cdf857104e6fff67/spring-jcl-6.1.4.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.springframework/spring-aop/6.1.4/26ae2c9e7f69b0235a2faca1c58416c51eaebef6/spring-aop-6.1.4.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.springframework/spring-beans/6.1.4/e311cc9937d522a1051622580b4a2c250fc74164/spring-beans-6.1.4.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.springframework/spring-expression/6.1.4/a1f2e3af83c7222b7f95f68a8e0666fdcceb35e1/spring-expression-6.1.4.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/io.micrometer/micrometer-observation/1.12.3/105f768c211564fcebe4d79419bda4ebef0d0ac7/micrometer-observation-1.12.3.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/ch.qos.logback/logback-core/1.4.14/4d3c2248219ac0effeb380ed4c5280a80bf395e8/logback-core-1.4.14.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.slf4j/slf4j-api/2.0.12/48f109a2a6d8f446c794f3e3fa0d86df0cdfa312/slf4j-api-2.0.12.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.apache.logging.log4j/log4j-api/2.21.1/74c65e87b9ce1694a01524e192d7be989ba70486/log4j-api-2.21.1.jar:/Users/dev/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/io.micrometer/micrometer-commons/1.12.3/83add2dda5cdc811fefb83e858c7412a176fe5b1/micrometer-commons-1.12.3.jar org.code2care.demo.DemoApplication

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2024-02-26T17:23:33.013+05:30  INFO 2653 --- [           main] org.code2care.demo.DemoApplication       : Starting DemoApplication using Java 21.0.1 with PID 2653 (/Users/dev/Documents/Java-Projects/demo/demo/build/classes/java/main started by dev in /Users/dev/Documents/Java-Projects/demo/demo)
2024-02-26T17:23:33.015+05:30  INFO 2653 --- [           main] org.code2care.demo.DemoApplication       : No active profile set, falling back to 1 default profile: "default"
2024-02-26T17:23:33.302+05:30  INFO 2653 --- [           main] org.code2care.demo.DemoApplication       : Started DemoApplication in 0.533 seconds (process running for 1.005)

Process finished with exit code 0