How to configure spring boot mvc app for JSP?

Question

I am new to Spring boot ( and servlet 3.0 ). I am trying to create spring mvc project with JSP as view. When I return a view from my controller it is not getting resolved a

Answer 1

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

also needed and your pages should be at /webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/

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    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
        <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
        <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
    </dependency>

Answer 2

If we want to use jsp as view in spring boot(which by default has tomcat server) we need to add the following to our pom.xml:

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

we need to add our pages inside

src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view

After this we can specify the location for our jsp pages in application.properties

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

Answer 3

You do not require the ViewResolver. pom.xml needs the mentioned dependencies as told by Yura and place the jsp files in src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\jsp.

Answer 4

Assuming it is embedded Tomcat,

You need to have followings in your 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>

Embedded Tomcat core package has no JSP rendering support.

Answer 5

1. Create webapp/WEB-INF/views {Name the last folder as U Like } under src/main

2. add jstl jar

3. add following two lines in application.properties

   spring.mvc.view.prefix:/WEB-INF/views/ spring.mvc.view.suffix:.jsp

   Run As Spring Boot App ..U are good to go !

   For More U can consult my this project on github : https://github.com/SudipBiswasRana/Using-JSP-As-View-For-Spring-Project