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Danka
Danka

Reputation: 35

How to create a multi module spring mvc application

I have 2 maven packages, both of them with spring boot dependencies. CoreApplication and CustomerApplication. Both apps have Spring MVC controllers, views and static resources.

In CoreApplication I dont have any runner class annotated with @SpringBootApplication.

In CustomerApplication pom.xml I use CoreApplication as a dependency.

If I run the CustomerApplication @SpringBootApplication annotated runner class, it finds the controllers in CoreApplication, but not the views. It can serve requests like http://localhost:8080/core/index, but I get an error from thymeleaf. (org.thymeleaf.exceptions.TemplateInputException: Error resolving template "index")

Is it possible what I want to do? How can I have a Core module with all common app specific stuff and a Customer app for every customer with their own business logic?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 810

Answers (1)

gWombat
gWombat

Reputation: 517

Maybe you can try:

Annotate your CoreApplication module with @SpringBootApplication to let Spring manage and initialize your app as usual:

@SpringBootApplication
public class CoreApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(CoreApplication.class, args);
    }
}

And in your CustomerApplication's runner, you can put:

@SpringBootApplication
public class CustomerApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new SpringApplicationBuilder()
            .sources(CoreApplication.class, CustomerApplication.class)
            .run(args);
    }
}

This way Spring will initialize your two modules properly.

Upvotes: 1

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