I think it would be helpful if maxIdleTime for Tomcat threads would be exposed as an application aproperty.
As far as I know there is not easy way to configure this for an embedded Tomcat.
By the way: Thank you very much for providing Spring Boot!
Comment From: snicoll
There's some context as why we can't configure maxIdleTime in an embedded container, see #16450. Andy suggested to open an improvement in Tomcat so feel free to do that and we can reopen that issue once that is available.
Comment From: PascalSchumacher
Thanks for the information and sorry for creating this duplicate issue (I searched but missed #16450).