[CAUSEWAY-2086] Define beans for configuration, so that (eventually) can use Spring Boot's @ConfigurationProperties infrastructure.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.17.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-M3
• Assignee: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Reporter: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Created: 12/Jan/19 11:45
• Updated: 06/Nov/19 14:21
• Resolved: 06/Nov/19 14:21

Description

ie as per https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-external-config

Another benefit we will get from this is that SB has an annotation processor that generates some IDE config files to provide autocomplete when editing the application.properties file

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.0.8.RELEASE/reference/html/configuration-metadata.html#configuration-metadata-annotation-processor