diff --git a/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml b/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml
index 87d2f612af..ea0acdcb00 100644
--- a/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-mvc-java/pom.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
             <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
             <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
@@ -280,6 +284,7 @@
         <poi.version>3.16-beta1</poi.version>
 
         <javax.el.version>3.0.1-b09</javax.el.version>
+        <start-class>com.baeldung.SpringMVCApplication</start-class>
 		
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/SpringMVCApplication.java b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/SpringMVCApplication.java
index ee263aaab2..a456dc125e 100644
--- a/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/SpringMVCApplication.java
+++ b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/SpringMVCApplication.java
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@ package com.baeldung;
 
 import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;
 
 @SpringBootApplication
-public class SpringMVCApplication {
+public class SpringMVCApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         SpringApplication.run(SpringMVCApplication.class, args);
     }
diff --git a/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/config/AppInitializer.java b/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/config/AppInitializer.java
deleted file mode 100644
index eec12f466f..0000000000
--- a/spring-mvc-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/config/AppInitializer.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-package com.baeldung.config;
-
-import org.springframework.web.WebApplicationInitializer;
-import org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener;
-import org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet;
-
-import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
-import javax.servlet.ServletException;
-import javax.servlet.ServletRegistration;
-
-public class AppInitializer implements WebApplicationInitializer {
-
-    @Override
-    public void onStartup(ServletContext container) throws ServletException {
-        AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
-        
-        context.scan("com.baeldung");
-
-        container.addListener(new ContextLoaderListener(context));
-
-        ServletRegistration.Dynamic dispatcher = container.addServlet("mvc", new DispatcherServlet(context));
-        dispatcher.setLoadOnStartup(1);
-        dispatcher.addMapping("/");
-        
-        // final MultipartConfigElement multipartConfigElement = new
-        // MultipartConfigElement(TMP_FOLDER, MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE,
-        // MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE * 2, MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE / 2);
-        //
-        // appServlet.setMultipartConfig(multipartConfigElement);
-    }
-
-}