Spring Resource Handling

This application demonstrates new resource handling features in Spring Framework 4.1. It was originally developed for the talk Resource Handling in Spring MVC 4.1 talk at SpringOne2GX 2014.

This projects requires a local install of node+npm (see nvm).

The easiest way to get started - from the project root - development version:

SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=development RESOURCES_PROJECTROOT=`pwd` ./gradlew :server:bootRun

Or the production version (more optimizations):

./gradlew :server:bootRun

Then go to:

• http://localhost:8080/ for an example with Handlebars templating
• http://localhost:8080/groovy for an example with Groovy Template Engine
• http://localhost:8080/app for an example with an HTML5 AppCache Manifest (you can check this in Chrome with chrome://appcache-internals/ )
• http://localhost:8080/less for an example with a LESS stylesheet; this page uses less files and the LESS JS transpiler in development mode, and a transpiled version in production
• http://localhost:8080/jsp for a JSP example

Interesting parts of the application:

• configuring resource handlers with resource resolvers and resource transformers
• a sample template file using handlebars.java and a custom handlebars helper to resolve URLs to static resources