Project A has Project B as a maven dependency. project B has a @Component annotated class that extends from SpringBootServletInitializer. I don’t want to start two Spring Boot applications, but I also can’t remove this dependency.

I tried using

@ComponentScan(basePackages = {"com.main"},
        includeFilters = {@ComponentScan.Filter(type = FilterType.REGEX, pattern = "com.main.app.*")},
        excludeFilters = {@ComponentScan.Filter(type = FilterType.REGEX, pattern = "com.dependency.app.*")},
        useDefaultFilters = false)

but it is called anyway.

I was thinking of using @AutoConfiguration in the dependency, so I can potentially disable this behaviour with spring.autoconfigure.exclude, but I’m really lost.

What’s the best approach here?