title: Launch a specific Spring Boot service from a codebase containing several
body: <p>I am developing an application which will consist of a number of services that will communicate via RESTful APIs. Each service will be deployed in its own docker container and there will be only one service per container. The provisioning and deployment of the container is outside the scope of this question.</p>
  
  <p>Spring Boot is being employed to provide the RESTful service capabilities. The service code is annotated with <code>org.springframework.stereotype.Service</code> and corresponding controller code is annotated with <code>org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Currently, there are three services, one that behaves more as a client, since it calls the other two. They are all annotated as <code>@Service</code>, although the client has no controller. More services are likely to be added in the future. All of this code is contained within a single project.</p>
  
  <p>When I launch the application, all three services are automatically started. This is fine for development testing purposes, but I need a way to launch a specific service and only that service.</p>
  
  <p>What methods are there to achieve this behavior?</p>