That makes sense. I'm used to having to worry about disconnected environments (I worked on Cloud Foundry buildpacks for a while), for which Spring Boot's JARs

That makes sense. I'm used to having to worry about disconnected environments (I worked on Cloud Foundry buildpacks for a while), for which Spring Boot's JARs work a treat. In a fully connected environment this approach looks promising. If I bump into any of the Spring folks I will mention it.