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In this tutorial we will build simple Spring Boot Application that only has Controller that returns static HTML page.
Application Schema [Results]
Spring Boot Starters
GROUP
DEPENDENCY
DESCRIPTION
Web
Spring Web
Enables @Controller, @RequestMapping and Tomcat Server.
Template Engines
Thyemeleaf
Enables Controller to return reference to HTML file test.html
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Create Project: controller_application (add Spring Boot Starters from the table)
Create Package: controllers (inside package com.ivoronline.test_spring_boot)
– Create Class: MyController.java (inside package controllers)
Create HTML File: test.html (inside directory resources/templates)
MyController.java
package com.ivoronline.controller_application.controllers;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
@Controller
public class MyController {
@RequestMapping("/Hello")
public String hello() {
System.out.println("Hello from Controller");
return "test";
}
}
test.html
<title>Test.html</title>
Hello from test.html
test.html
http://localhost:8080/Hello
Tomcat
hello()
Browser
MyController
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http://localhost:8080/Hello
Console
Hello from Controller
Application Structure
pom.xml
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
