diff --git a/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/build.gradle b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/build.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..51a522e05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/build.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+jar.enabled = false
+
+dependencies {
+    testCompileOnly project(':asciidoctorj')
+    testCompile "junit:junit:$junitVersion"
+    testCompile "org.assertj:assertj-core:$assertjVersion"
+    testCompile "commons-io:commons-io:$commonsioVersion"
+    testCompile "org.awaitility:awaitility:4.0.3"
+    testCompile "com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:4.9.1"
+    testCompile "com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.6"
+}
+
+test.dependsOn(':asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test:springboot-app:assemble')
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/build.gradle b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/build.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..80ae1b586
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/build.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+plugins {
+	id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.4.2'
+	id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.11.RELEASE'
+	id 'java'
+}
+
+group = 'org.asciidoctor.it'
+version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
+sourceCompatibility = '1.8'
+
+repositories {
+	mavenCentral()
+}
+
+ext {
+	asciidoctorjVersion = '2.4.2'
+}
+
+dependencies {
+	implementation project(':asciidoctorj')
+	implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
+	implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator'
+
+	testImplementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test'
+}
+
+bootJar {
+	requiresUnpack '**/jruby-complete-*.jar'
+	requiresUnpack '**/asciidoctorj-*.jar'
+}
+
+test {
+	useJUnitPlatform()
+}
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/settings.gradle b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/settings.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4ec29677c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/settings.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+rootProject.name = 'springboot-app'
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/AsciidoctorService.java b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/AsciidoctorService.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1aab49cdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/AsciidoctorService.java
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package org.asciidoctor.it.springboot;
+
+import org.asciidoctor.Asciidoctor;
+import org.asciidoctor.OptionsBuilder;
+import org.asciidoctor.SafeMode;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+@Component
+public class AsciidoctorService {
+
+    private final Asciidoctor asciidoctor = Asciidoctor.Factory.create();
+
+
+    public String convert(String source) {
+        return asciidoctor.convert(source, defaultOptions());
+    }
+
+    private OptionsBuilder defaultOptions() {
+        return OptionsBuilder.options()
+                .backend("html5")
+                .safe(SafeMode.SAFE)
+                .headerFooter(true)
+                .toFile(false);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/ConvertedResource.java b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/ConvertedResource.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1c7831848
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/ConvertedResource.java
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package org.asciidoctor.it.springboot;
+
+import java.beans.ConstructorProperties;
+
+public class ConvertedResource {
+
+    private final String content;
+    private final String contentType;
+
+    @ConstructorProperties({"content", "contentType"})
+    public ConvertedResource(String content, String contentType) {
+        this.content = content;
+        this.contentType = contentType;
+    }
+
+    public String getContent() {
+        return content;
+    }
+
+    public String getContentType() {
+        return contentType;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/ConverterController.java b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/ConverterController.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c05e6bb03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/ConverterController.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+package org.asciidoctor.it.springboot;
+
+import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PostMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
+
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.Base64;
+
+
+/**
+ * Simple Spring MVC Rest Controller to convert AsciiDoc sources to HTML.
+ */
+@RestController
+public class ConverterController {
+
+    private final AsciidoctorService asciidoctorService;
+
+    public ConverterController(AsciidoctorService asciidoctorService) {
+        this.asciidoctorService = asciidoctorService;
+    }
+
+
+    @PostMapping("/asciidoc")
+    public ConvertedResource convert(@RequestBody SourceContent content) {
+        byte[] decodedContent = Base64.getDecoder().decode(content.getData());
+        String converted = asciidoctorService.convert(new String(decodedContent));
+
+        String encodedConvertedContent = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(converted.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+        return new ConvertedResource(encodedConvertedContent, MediaType.TEXT_HTML_VALUE);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/SourceContent.java b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/SourceContent.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ca1b94da6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/SourceContent.java
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package org.asciidoctor.it.springboot;
+
+public class SourceContent {
+
+    /**
+     * Base64 encoded
+     */
+    private String data;
+
+
+    public void setData(String data) {
+        this.data = data;
+    }
+
+    public String getData() {
+        return data;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/SpringbootAppApplication.java b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/SpringbootAppApplication.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f07922989
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/SpringbootAppApplication.java
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package org.asciidoctor.it.springboot;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+
+/**
+ * This is a test application for testing purposes.
+ * It does not in any represent the recommended way to implement an
+ * Asciidoctorj conversion service with SpringBoot.
+ */
+@SpringBootApplication
+public class SpringbootAppApplication {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        SpringApplication.run(SpringbootAppApplication.class, args);
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/resources/application.properties b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/resources/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6a7ab879e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+spring.main.banner-mode=off
+management.endpoint.health.probes.enabled=true
+info.app.java.source=${java.version}
+info.app.java.target=${java.version}
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/test/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/SpringbootAppApplicationTests.java b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/test/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/SpringbootAppApplicationTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cf8f12d7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/springboot-app/src/test/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/SpringbootAppApplicationTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+package org.asciidoctor.it.springboot;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplate;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
+
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.Base64;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
+class SpringbootAppApplicationTests {
+
+    @Autowired
+    private TestRestTemplate restTemplate;
+
+    @Test
+    void should_convert_document() {
+
+        final SourceContent request = new SourceContent();
+        String asciidocDocument = "= Title\n" +
+                "\n" +
+                "== First chapter\n" +
+                "first chapter\n" +
+                "\n" +
+                "== Second chapter\n" +
+                "second chapter";
+        request.setData(base64Encode(asciidocDocument));
+
+        ResponseEntity<ConvertedResource> responseEntity = restTemplate.postForEntity("/asciidoc", request, ConvertedResource.class);
+
+        assertThat(responseEntity.getStatusCodeValue())
+                .isEqualTo(HttpStatus.OK.value());
+        final ConvertedResource response = responseEntity.getBody();
+        assertThat(response.getContentType())
+                .isEqualTo(MediaType.TEXT_HTML_VALUE);
+
+        assertThat(base64Decode(response))
+                .contains("<h1>Title</h1>")
+                .contains("<p>first chapter</p>")
+                .contains("<h2 id=\"_second_chapter\">Second chapter</h2>");
+    }
+
+    private String base64Encode(String asciidocDocument) {
+        return new String(Base64.getEncoder().encode(asciidocDocument.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
+    }
+
+    private String base64Decode(ConvertedResource response) {
+        return new String(Base64.getDecoder().decode(response.getContent()));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/src/test/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/ProcessHelper.java b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/src/test/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/ProcessHelper.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d951b3917
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/src/test/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/ProcessHelper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package org.asciidoctor.it.springboot;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+public class ProcessHelper {
+
+    static ProcessOutput run(Map<String, String> env, String... command) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+        ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder(command)
+                .directory(new File("springboot-app"));
+
+        processBuilder.environment().clear();
+        String javaHome = System.getProperty("java.home");
+        processBuilder.environment().put("JAVA_HOME", javaHome);
+        processBuilder.environment().put("PATH", javaHome + "/bin");
+        processBuilder.environment().putAll(env);
+
+        Process process = processBuilder.start();
+
+        final InputStream is = process.getInputStream();
+        final InputStream es = process.getErrorStream();
+        boolean status = process.waitFor(10l, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+        if (!status) {
+            byte[] buffer = new byte[1800];
+            IOUtils.read(is, buffer);
+            return new ProcessOutput(process, new String(buffer), new String());
+        }
+
+        return new ProcessOutput(IOUtils.toString(es), IOUtils.toString(is));
+    }
+
+
+    static class ProcessOutput {
+        final Process process;
+        final String out, err;
+
+        public ProcessOutput(String sto, String err) {
+            this(null, sto, err);
+        }
+
+        public ProcessOutput(Process process, String sto, String err) {
+            this.process = process;
+            this.out = sto;
+            this.err = err;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/src/test/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/SpringBootTest.java b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/src/test/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/SpringBootTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..87e2244b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test/src/test/java/org/asciidoctor/it/springboot/SpringBootTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+package org.asciidoctor.it.springboot;
+
+import com.google.gson.Gson;
+import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
+import kotlin.collections.ArrayDeque;
+import okhttp3.*;
+import org.awaitility.Awaitility;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.Base64;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import static java.util.Collections.emptyMap;
+import static java.util.Collections.singletonMap;
+import static org.asciidoctor.it.springboot.ProcessHelper.run;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+public class SpringBootTest {
+
+    final List<Process> testProcesses = new ArrayDeque<>();
+
+
+    @Test
+    public void should_start_SpringBoot_service_with_requiresUnpack() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+
+        int serverPort = 8000 + ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt(1000);
+        startSpringBootApp(serverPort);
+
+        String asciidocDocument = "= Title\n" +
+                "\n" +
+                "== First chapter\n" +
+                "first chapter\n" +
+                "\n" +
+                "== Second chapter\n" +
+                "second chapter";
+        Map<String, String> jsonResponse = convertDocument(asciidocDocument, serverPort);
+
+        assertThat(jsonResponse.get("contentType"))
+                .isEqualTo("text/html");
+        assertThat(base64Decode(jsonResponse.get("content")))
+                .contains("<h1>Title</h1>")
+                .contains("<p>first chapter</p>")
+                .contains("<h2 id=\"_second_chapter\">Second chapter</h2>");
+    }
+
+    @After
+    public void cleanup() {
+        testProcesses.forEach(Process::destroy);
+    }
+
+    private Map<String, String> convertDocument(String asciidocDocument, int serverPort) throws IOException {
+        String body = "{\"data\":\"" + base64Encode(asciidocDocument) + "\"}";
+
+        Request request = new Request.Builder()
+                .url("http://localhost:" + serverPort + "/asciidoc")
+                .post(RequestBody.create(body, MediaType.parse("application/json")))
+                .build();
+        Response response = new OkHttpClient()
+                .newCall(request)
+                .execute();
+
+        return new Gson()
+                .fromJson(response.body().string(), new TypeToken<Map<String, String>>() {}.getType());
+    }
+
+    private String base64Encode(String asciidocDocument) {
+        return new String(Base64.getEncoder().encode(asciidocDocument.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
+    }
+
+    private String base64Decode(String value) {
+        return new String(Base64.getDecoder().decode(value));
+    }
+
+    private void startSpringBootApp(int serverPort) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+
+        ProcessHelper.ProcessOutput run = run(singletonMap("SERVER_PORT", String.valueOf(serverPort)),
+                "java", "-jar", "build/libs/springboot-app-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar");
+
+        testProcesses.add(run.process);
+
+        Awaitility.await()
+                .atMost(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
+                .pollInterval(3, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
+                .until(() -> {
+                    Request request = new Request.Builder()
+                            .url("http://localhost:" + serverPort + "/actuator/health/readiness")
+                            .build();
+                    Response response = new OkHttpClient()
+                            .newCall(request)
+                            .execute();
+                    return response.isSuccessful() && response.body().string().contains("UP");
+                });
+    }
+}
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index d4acb38fe..9c6349ec7 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ ext {
   jrubyVersion = '9.2.14.0'
   jsoupVersion = '1.12.1'
   junitVersion = '4.13.1'
+  assertjVersion = '3.19.0'
   nettyVersion = '4.1.58.Final'
   saxonVersion = '9.9.0-2'
   xmlMatchersVersion = '1.0-RC1'
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ subprojects {
     configFile = rootProject.file('config/codenarc/codenarc.groovy')
   }
 
-  if (it.name != 'asciidoctorj-wildfly-integration-test') {
+  if (!isIntegrationTestProject(it)) {
 
     dependencies {
       testCompile "junit:junit:$junitVersion"
@@ -178,10 +179,16 @@ subprojects {
 
 }
 
-configure(subprojects.findAll { !it.isDistribution() && it.name != 'asciidoctorj-api' && it.name != 'asciidoctorj-documentation' && it.name != 'asciidoctorj-test-support' && it.name != 'asciidoctorj-arquillian-extension' && it.name != 'asciidoctorj-wildfly-integration-test' }) {
+configure(subprojects.findAll { !it.isDistribution() && it.name != 'asciidoctorj-api' && it.name != 'asciidoctorj-documentation' && it.name != 'asciidoctorj-test-support' && it.name != 'asciidoctorj-arquillian-extension' && !isIntegrationTestProject(it) }) {
   apply from: rootProject.file('gradle/versioncheck.gradle')
 }
 
+boolean isIntegrationTestProject(def project) {
+  project.name in ['asciidoctorj-wildfly-integration-test',
+                   'asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test',
+                   'springboot-app']
+}
+
 // apply JRuby and sources/javadocs packaging stuff for all subprojects except the distribution
 configure(subprojects.findAll { !it.isDistribution() }) {
 
diff --git a/gradle/versioncheck.gradle b/gradle/versioncheck.gradle
index ccf26fd41..167b3e747 100644
--- a/gradle/versioncheck.gradle
+++ b/gradle/versioncheck.gradle
@@ -91,4 +91,4 @@ private String latestGemVersionAsJavaVersion(String gem_latest_version) {
 
 checkVersion.onlyIf { !gradle.startParameter.isOffline() }
 checkVersion.onlyIf { !project.hasProperty("skip.checkVersion") }
-check.dependsOn checkVersion
\ No newline at end of file
+check.dependsOn checkVersion
diff --git a/settings.gradle b/settings.gradle
index 5d7afbb4d..69084fd12 100644
--- a/settings.gradle
+++ b/settings.gradle
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ include \
   'asciidoctorj-distribution',
   'asciidoctorj-documentation',
   'asciidoctorj-wildfly-integration-test',
+  'asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test',
+  'asciidoctorj-springboot-integration-test:springboot-app',
   'asciidoctorj-test-support'
 
 project(':asciidoctorj').projectDir = file('asciidoctorj-core')