Spring Boottools reload not working automatically with Spring Boot 1.5.4

I have looked through many articles and questions on the internet about spring-boot-devtools

but still can't figure out why it doesn't work for me. Every time I run my application I get the following:

17:54:28.057 [main] DEBUG 
org.springframework.boot.devtools.settings.DevToolsSettings
- Included patterns for restart : []

17:54:28.066 [main] DEBUG 
org.springframework.boot.devtools.settings.DevToolsSettings
- Excluded patterns for restart : [/spring-boot-starter/target/classes/,
/spring-boot-autoconfigure/target/classes/, /spring-boot-starter-[\w-]+/,
 /spring-boot/target/classes/, /spring-boot-actuator/target/classes/, 
/spring-boot-devtools/target/classes/]

17:54:28.069 [main] DEBUG 
org.springframework.boot.devtools.restart.ChangeableUrls - Matching 
URLs for reloading : [file:/some/where/build/classes/main/, 
file:/some/where/build/resources/main/]

      

        
        
        
      

    

Whenever I changed one of my controller files, nothing happened. So I came across an article that mentioned that I should try adding spring.devtools.restart.additional-paths=/src

to the application properties file. Usage /src

won't work because it will take absolute path, so I changed it to src

. After that, by adding a new endpoint to my controller file and saving it, restart your Spring reboot. However, I got a 404 for the endpoint, which will only work if I manually restart the server.

How can I make Spring boot restart and allow me to see the actual changes I made to the controller?

I am using Spring Boot 1.5.4 with the following in build.gradle

:

dependencies {
    // ...
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools')
    testCompile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test')
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

My application has the following structure:

build/
src/
  main/
    java/
      com/
        example/
          something/
            controllers/
              MyController.java
            SomethingApplication.java
    resources/
      application.yml
  test/
    ...

      

        
        
        
      

    

Mine application.yml

includes

spring:
    devtools:
        restart:
            enabled: true
            additional-paths: src