Spring Boot with JSP pages

Technologies: Spring-Boot with WEB, JPA, JAXRS, JSP and Boostrap css/js framework.

Reference: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/v1.5.8.RELEASE/spring-boot-samples/spring-boot-sample-web-jsp

Steps

1. Create Spring-Boot project using Spring-Boot Initializer with

    H2, MySql, Jpa, WEB support
   

2. In src/main folder create webapp folder.

   a. Inside webapp create WEB-INF/jsp and static folders

   b. You can delete static and templates folders from resources folder.

   c. add info for jsp files prefix, suffix in application.properties

    spring.mvc.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/jsp/
    spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp
   

3. put

   <packaging>war</packaging>

   and for JSP and jstl support add additional dependencies in pom.xml

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
        <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>jstl</groupId>
        <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
        <version>1.2</version>
    </dependency>
   

4. add necessary services, controllers etc.

5. Run

   mvn spring-boot:run

   - OR -
   

   mvn clean package

   java -jar SpringBootJSP_2.war