Spring Boot Empty MVC Thymeleaf Template

About

This is an empty Spring Boot MVC Thymeleaf template for quick bootstrapping of Spring Boot projects.

It was made using Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, Spring Data JPA, Spring Data REST. Database is in memory H2.

How to run

You can run the application from the command line with Maven. Or you can build a single executable JAR file that contains all the necessary dependencies, classes, and resources, and run that. Go to the root folder of the application and type:

./mvnw spring-boot:run

Or you can build the JAR file with

./mvnw clean package

Then you can run the JAR file:

java -jar target/empty-template-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

The application should be up and running within a few seconds.

Go to the web browser and visit http://localhost:8190/home

In /src/main/resources/application.properties file it is possible to change the port number.

Helper Tools

HAL REST Browser

Go to the web browser and visit http://localhost:8190/

You will need to be authenticated to be able to see this page.

H2 Database web interface

Go to the web browser and visit http://localhost:8190/h2-console

In field JDBC URL put

jdbc:h2:mem:empty_template_db

In /src/main/resources/application.properties file it is possible to change both web interface url path, as well as the datasource url.