From 33c038199d6bddc745da22ec56ae48a0c59e3e1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Smith <58187843+robert-smith-911@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:21:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add note about exploded jars and banner properties

Add a note to the "Customizing the Banner" explaining that you need
to be using the `JarLauncher` to use the `application.*` properties.

See gh-24982
---
 .../src/docs/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc                | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc
index 7bf96c99eedb..2d1a0588f8c4 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc
@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ You can also use the configprop:spring.main.banner-mode[] property to determine
 
 The printed banner is registered as a singleton bean under the following name: `springBootBanner`.
 
+NOTE: If you are running with an unpacked jar (and not using the Spring Boot launcher), `application.*` properties are not available.
+As a workaround, you can use JarLauncher to start the app (for example, `java -cp . org.springframework.boot.loader.JarLauncher`).
+
 
 
 [[boot-features-customizing-spring-application]]