Package a spring boot application including JSPs and static resources

Question

I want to package a spring-boot application as jar, and I do so with mvn package.

This produces a jar which does not contain any /WEB-INF/jsp

Answer 1

The following example works with Spring Boot 1.3.3.RELEASE: https://github.com/ghillert/spring-boot-jsp-demo

The key is to put the static jsp content in:

/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/WEB-INF/jsp

and ensure you define the view prefix/suffix in your application.properties:

spring.mvc.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/jsp/
spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp