This tutorial walks you through the process of creating a Hello World example web site with Spring MVC XML Configurations and Thymeleaf
What you'll build
What you'll need
- JDK 1.8+
- Maven 3+
Stack
- Spring MVC 5
- Thymeleaf View Template
Init project structure and dependencies
Project structure
├── src
│ └── main
│ ├── java
│ │ └── com
│ │ └── hellokoding
│ │ └── springmvc
│ │ └── HelloController.java
│ ├── resources
│ │ ├── application.properties
│ │ └── logback.xml
│ └── webapp
│ ├── WEB-INF
│ │ ├── views
│ │ │ └── hello.html
│ │ ├── appconfig-mvc.xml
│ │ ├── appconfig-root.xml
│ │ └── web.xml
│ └── resources
│ ├── css
│ │ └── main.css
│ └── js
│ └── main.js
└── pom.xml
Project dependencies
Define Controller and View Template
Hello Controller
Controller maps HTTP Requests with View.
@RequestMapping maps /hello request to hello() method.
name is a query string parameter of /hello request.
Model object passes value to hello view (hello.html).
Thymeleaf View Template
Thymeleaf performs server side rendering for the HTML content. It parses the hello.html template below and evaluate the Spring EL (Expression Language) to render the value of ${name} parameter that was set in the controller.
Static files
Config and Run
XML Configurations
An application usually has several XML configuration files, but there should only one bootstrap file (appconfig-root.xml). This bootstrap file should use the <import resource="" /> to include other config files.
Run with Maven and Jetty
Type the below command at the project root directory and visit to localhost:8080
mvn clean jetty:run