Using GSP views in plain Spring MVC without Grails

Question

I would like to use GSP views instead of JSP/JSTL views in a plain old Spring MVC application. I have added a groovy.servlet.TemplateServlet to web.xml like this:

Answer 1

Instead of using a TemplateServlet, you could have also used a GroovyPagesServlet for that purpose (I haven't tested that, just looked at Grails' web.xml and the class' code).
The latter requires a Spring bean to be setup, named groovyPagesTemplateEngine, and typed GroovyPagesTemplateEngine (GStringTemplateEngine in this case).

Configuring the view layer with an InternalResourceViewResolver is correct. You'll have assigned a GroovyPageView.

GSPs, by default, are not configured to perform HTML output escaping. To configure that, change grails.views.default.codec from none to html in Config.groovy. See this article for more information.