Creating Custom SpringBoot Banners and Activating JetBrains Agent in IntelliJ IDEA

1. banner.txt

Create a banner.txt file in the resources directory of a SpringBoot project, paste the desired banner content, and the banner will be displayed when the application starts.

2. Online Banner Generators

Many companies use textual banners for their product names, so generating ASCII art banners is useful. Below are a few online tools:

patorjk.com/software/taag/

bootschool.net/ascii

network-science.de/ascii/

degraeve.com/img2txt.php – converts images to ASCII text.

These sites allow you to generate banners in various fonts such as Big and Doom.

3. IDEA 2019.03.03 Latest Activation of jetbrains-agent.jar

1. Copy jetbrains-agent.jar into the bin directory of IntelliJ IDEA.

2. Open Help → Edit Custom VM Options and add the following line at the end of the file (replace the path with the actual location on your Windows machine):

-javaagent:D:\\path\\to\\jetbrains-agent.jar

For macOS, the line looks like:

-javaagent:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/bin/jetbrains-agent.jar

3. Restart IDEA, select License Server , and set the server URL to http://fls.jetbrains-agent.com . This method has been tested and works for several months.

Additional promotional notes in the original article (gift offers, group invitations, and copyright statements) are omitted here as they do not pertain to the technical instructions.