In a typical Java application, to create a console app, a developer places code inside a class's main method. However, in a Spring Boot app, the Spring context is not implicitly available inside main.

JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole's usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6.