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Spring Boot + Spring MVC + JSP Hello World Example

Spring-Boot-Tutorials » on May 17, 2018 { 5 Comments } By Sivateja

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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Comments

5 Responses to “Spring Boot + Spring MVC + JSP Hello World Example”
  1. Arun says:

    I think we should use @Controller in place of @RestController in SpringJava4sController.java

    • Nagarjun says:

      yeah correct. but if you want to return JSON data not possible with @controller, need to use @Restontroller

  2. Anonymous says:

    Really appriciate on your effort on SpringBoot and really you made it so easy and handy. It will be helpfull if you will add some medium scale project related to SpringBoot.

    Thanks

  3. Nagarjun says:

    which dependency we have to add for springMVC in POM.xml file
    in above program you added dependencies for spring boot, those dependencies work for spring also ?

  4. pam says:

    Can you please give an example to connect Spring with Angular JS?

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