Create Spring Boot MVC Project

In this article we will see how to create Spring Boot MVC project

First create the project using https://start.spring.io/

Do not forget to add the Spring Web dependency

Create ApplicationConfig.java class and add the following code

package com.kayak.auto;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ResourceHandlerRegistry;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurationSupport;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView;

@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.kayak.auto")
public class ApplicationConfig extends WebMvcConfigurationSupport {
    @Override
    protected void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
        super.addResourceHandlers(registry);
        registry.addResourceHandler("css/**","images/**")
                .addResourceLocations("/css/","/images");

    }
    @Bean
    public InternalResourceViewResolver jspViewResolver(){
        InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
        viewResolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/jsp/");
        viewResolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
        viewResolver.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
        return viewResolver;
    }

}

Add the following dependencies to pom.xml

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

Create your HomeController.java inside the controllers folder and add the following code

package com.kayak.auto.controllers;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;

@Controller
public class HomeController {
    @GetMapping("/home")
    public String getHome(){
        return "index";
    }
}