title: Is it possible to start up an external spring-boot application programmatically
body: <p>I have created a rest application using spring-boot 2.0.3. From an other maven module (in a different multi module pom), I have an integration test that tests that data sent to the running rest application is processed.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to run this spring-boot application programatically? I cannot use the simple @SpringBootTest-annotation as the spring-boot application is not in the same maven multi module.</p>