Spring Boot 1.4.7 JSP Example

build.gradle

buildscript {
	ext {
		springBootVersion = '1.4.7.RELEASE'
	}
	repositories {
		mavenCentral()
	}
	dependencies {
		classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}")
	}
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse-wtp'
apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'
apply plugin: 'war'

version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
	mavenCentral()
}

configurations {
	providedRuntime
}

dependencies {
	compile ("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web")
	providedRuntime('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat')
	providedRuntime ("org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-jasper")
	compile ("javax.servlet:jstl:1.2")
	testCompile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test')
}

DemoApplication.java

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
import org.springframework.boot.web.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;

@SpringBootApplication
public class DemoApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
	
	@Override
	protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
		return application.sources(DemoApplication.class);  
	}

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

WebConfig.java

@Configuration
public class WebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurationSupport {
    @Bean
    public UrlBasedViewResolver getViewResolver(){
        UrlBasedViewResolver resolver = new UrlBasedViewResolver();
        resolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/jsp/");
        resolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
        resolver.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
        return resolver;
    }

    @Override
    public void configureDefaultServletHandling(DefaultServletHandlerConfigurer configurer) {
        configurer.enable();
    }

}

WelcomeController.java

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;

@Controller
public class WelcomeController {

	@GetMapping("/")
	public String welcome() {
		return "welcome";
	}

}