Comment From: wilkinsona
spring.devtools.restart.additional-paths does not configure the classpath, it configures the locations that Dev Tools will watch for changes that should trigger an automatic restart of the application. As you have observed, setting that property will have no effect on Archaius's behaviour. I'm not familiar with Archaius but I would recommend following the advice in its log message in the first instance.
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