Thymeleaf Spring MVC Integration Example

Thymeleaf is an  xml, xhtml, html5 template engine and good alternative  for JSP.   You can see how we integrate it with spring mvc.

package com.springthymeleaf.controller;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.ModelMap;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/")
public class HelloController {

	@RequestMapping(value = "/{name}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
	public String getMovie(@PathVariable String name, ModelMap model) {
		model.addAttribute("name", name);
		return "hello";
	}

}

 

<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
	http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

	<display-name>Spring Thymeleaf Example</display-name>

	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>

	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>

	<context-param>
		<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
		<param-value>/WEB-INF/mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
	</context-param>

	<listener>
		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
	</listener>

</web-app>

 

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans     
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">

	<context:component-scan base-package="com.springthymeleaf.controller" />

	<mvc:annotation-driven />


	<bean id="templateResolver"
		class="org.thymeleaf.templateresolver.ServletContextTemplateResolver">
		<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/templates/" />
		<property name="suffix" value=".html" />
		<property name="templateMode" value="HTML5" />
	</bean>

	<bean id="templateEngine" class="org.thymeleaf.spring4.SpringTemplateEngine">
		<property name="templateResolver" ref="templateResolver" />
	</bean>

	<bean class="org.thymeleaf.spring4.view.ThymeleafViewResolver">
		<property name="templateEngine" ref="templateEngine" />
	</bean>

</beans>

 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>Spring MVC + Thymeleaf Example</title>
</head>
<body>
	<td>Hello, <span th:text="${name}" />!</td>
</body>
</html>

 

You can download this project from github.

https://github.com/furkanzumrut/SpringThymeleafExample

Just use mvn tomcat:run command in console to see the example how works.

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