Launch the Spring Boot application even though no connection to zeebe is possible

[beilCrxmarkets]

Current behavior

The startup process of a Spring Boot application that uses Spring-zeebe fails if it cannot reach zeebe.

Wanted behavior

Spring Boot application starts and throws a ConnectException every few seconds.

Reason for this feature

Our workers also have a UI and other functionalities. For local development, we want to launch only the services we need. Currently, at least zeebe and elasticsearch would always have to start, even if we only want to make changes to the worker's UI, for example. With this feature, we wouldn't have to do that anymore.

[tjayr]

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I have also run in to this limitation. Allowing the spring boot application to start when Zeebe is unreachable would be very welcome. Perhaps with a configurable number of retry attempts, a back off multiplier and some sensible default values.