Spring Boot + Spring MVC + JSP Hello World Example

This article describes how to create a Spring MVC application using Spring Boot. As this is an MVC application unlike previous examples, we have to create a webapp folder under /src/main (src > main > webapp) where we will place all our .jsp files.

Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Final pom.xml

<project
    xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.java4s</groupId>
    <artifactId>SpringBootSpringMVC</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.5.6.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>
</project>

application.properties

# Applicationn context name
server.contextPath=/springbootmvc

# Spring MVC related
spring.mvc.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/jsp/
spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp

In the current example, I am going to put all my .jsp file(s) under /WEB-INF/jsp/ folder, no need to mention ‘webapp’ in the properties file as spring boot by default consider that folder and search under webapp.

SpringBootApp.java

package com.java4s.app;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class SpringBootApp {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(SpringBootApp.class, args);
    }
}

SpringJava4sController.java

package com.java4s.app.controller;

import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

@RestController
public class SpringJava4sController {

    @GetMapping("/")
    public ModelAndView showLoginPage(Model model) {
        model.addAttribute("message", "Welcome to Java4s Spring Boot Tutorials");

        return new ModelAndView("welcomePage");
    }
}

welcomePage.jsp

${message}!

Output

Run the application and hit http://localhost:8080/springbootmvc/

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