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ticktock

Reputation: 1703

JSPs, static content, SpringBoot jars and IntelliJ

So I'm developing in IntelliJ a spring boot app. Using Gradle, I'm creating the sprint boot jar file.

I'm having problems figuring out where to put the jsps and static content such as .js files in such a way that running the jar AND running from within IntelliJ works!

It seems that in order to get SpringBoot to find jsps in a jar file I need to put the jsps inside a src/main/resources/META-INF/resources directory. For example, META-INF/resources/WEB-INF/index.jsp. I'm pretty sure the WEB-INF is now meaningless.

However, if I try to run this spring boot app from within IntelliJ, it cannot find the jsp. 404, blah blah blah. I actually have to put the jsps in the war-style webapp directory in src/main. However that directory is totally ignored during the spring boot jar build.

So.. how do developers set up their development environments that is both IntelliJ and, say, gradle bootRun friendly?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 363

Answers (2)

Girish Kumar K
Girish Kumar K

Reputation: 135

As per spring boot there are Limitations when it comes to jsp's.

To overcome these limitations we need to have the configuration made in the application to render jsp by placing the jsp's under src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/WEB-INF/jsp folder.

Sample Code: Click Here

References:

https://dzone.com/articles/spring-boot-with-jsps-in-executable-jars-1

https://github.com/hengyunabc/spring-boot-fat-jar-jsp-sample

Upvotes: 0

CrazyCoder
CrazyCoder

Reputation: 402403

There is a guide here which should work both in IntelliJ IDEA and in the command line via the war file which can be executed as a jar (via java -jar).

Upvotes: 1

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