At this point, your application should work. Since this application is Spring Boot based, we can run it from the command line via the command $ mvn spring-boot:run from the root of our applicaiton:

$ mvn clean spring-boot:run
....... . . .
....... . . . (Maven log output here)
....... . . .


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 :: Spring Boot ::        (v1.3.3.RELEASE)

2016-01-25 11:08:10.183  INFO 12943 --- [           main] com.example.SampleTask                   : Starting SampleTask on Michaels-MacBook-Pro-2.local with PID 12943 (/Users/mminella/Documents/IntelliJWorkspace/spring-cloud-task-example/target/classes started by mminella in /Users/mminella/Documents/IntelliJWorkspace/spring-cloud-task-example)
2016-01-25 11:08:10.185  INFO 12943 --- [           main] com.example.SampleTask                   : No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default
2016-01-25 11:08:10.226  INFO 12943 --- [           main] s.c.a.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext : Refreshing org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext@2a2c3676: startup date [Mon Jan 25 11:08:10 CST 2016]; root of context hierarchy
2016-01-25 11:08:11.051  INFO 12943 --- [           main] o.s.j.e.a.AnnotationMBeanExporter        : Registering beans for JMX exposure on startup
2016-01-25 11:08:11.065  INFO 12943 --- [           main] o.s.c.t.r.support.SimpleTaskRepository   : Creating: TaskExecution{executionId=0, externalExecutionID='null', exitCode=0, taskName='application', startTime=Mon Jan 25 11:08:11 CST 2016, endTime=null, statusCode='null', exitMessage='null', arguments=[]}
Hello World!
2016-01-25 11:08:11.071  INFO 12943 --- [           main] com.example.SampleTask                   : Started SampleTask in 1.095 seconds (JVM running for 3.826)
2016-01-25 11:08:11.220  INFO 12943 --- [       Thread-1] s.c.a.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext : Closing org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext@2a2c3676: startup date [Mon Jan 25 11:08:10 CST 2016]; root of context hierarchy
2016-01-25 11:08:11.222  INFO 12943 --- [       Thread-1] o.s.c.t.r.support.SimpleTaskRepository   : Updating: TaskExecution{executionId=0, externalExecutionID='null', exitCode=0, taskName='application', startTime=Mon Jan 25 11:08:11 CST 2016, endTime=Mon Jan 25 11:08:11 CST 2016, statusCode='null', exitMessage='null', arguments=[]}
2016-01-25 11:08:11.222  INFO 12943 --- [       Thread-1] o.s.j.e.a.AnnotationMBeanExporter        : Unregistering JMX-exposed beans on shutdown

If you notice, there are three lines of interest in the above output: