Spring boot initialization without #PostConstruct annotation - spring-boot

Question

I developed a Spring Boot application that currently works well with #PostConstruct initialization.
Now, with another requirement, I added another initApp() in the Service class and I found that the service is initialized twice - when called from the integrated app using initApp() as well as by default postconstruct annotated method.
I would like to initialize with initApp() only so I removed postconstruct annotated method. Doing so, the service is not initialized stand-alone (deployed on web server) but working fine with the integrated app.
Can someone help me how can I initialize the service without postconstrct annotation that works when deployed (as war file) on server?
Here is the pom.xml
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
4.0.0
<parent>
<groupId>com.study</groupId>
<artifactId>test_component</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<properties>
<start-class>com.study.TestStarter</start-class>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
<assembly_build_version>2.3.523</assembly_build_version>
<descriptorRef>${svc_install_pkg}</descriptorRef>
<!-- Additionally, Please make sure that your JAVA_HOME is pointing to
1.8 when building on commandline -->
<skip_tomcat_bundle>false</skip_tomcat_bundle>
<tomcat_bundle>tomcat85_24.tgz</tomcat_bundle>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- Add typical dependencies for a web application -->
<!-- Adds Tomcat and Spring MVC, along others -->
<!--dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.4.3.RELEASE</version> </dependency -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<version>1.4.3.RELEASE</version>
<!-- <exclusions> <exclusion> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId> </exclusion> </exclusions> -->
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<version>1.4.3.RELEASE</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-el</artifactId>
<version>8.5.6</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
<version>2.9.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>it.unimi.dsi</groupId>
<artifactId>fastutil</artifactId>
<version>7.0.11</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
<version>19.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>5.1.0.RELEASE</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-test-autoconfigure</artifactId>
<version>1.4.4.RELEASE</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
<artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
<version>1.10.19</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin><!-- Include if you want to make an executable jar[FAT JAR which
includes all dependencies along with sprinboot loader] that you can run on
commandline using java -jar NAME -->
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.12.4</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.7.7.201606060606</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>attach-artifacts</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>attach-artifact</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifacts>
<artifact>
<file>target/hgvs-${project.version}.jar</file>
<type>jar</type>
</artifact>
</artifacts>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>attach-sources</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>deploy</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
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Answer 1

Figured out a way by myself to solve this by initializing the service in the controller class with #Postcontruct annotation.