I want to run code after my spring-boot app starts to monitor a directory for changes.
I have tried running a new thread but the @Autowired services have not been set at that point.
I have been able to find ApplicationPreparedEvent, which fires before the @Autowired annotations are set. Ideally I would like the event to fire once the application is ready to process http requests.
Is there a better event to use, or a better way of running code after the application is live in spring-boot?