diff --git a/spring-rest-simple/src/main/java/org/baeldung/config/Application.java b/spring-rest-simple/src/main/java/org/baeldung/config/Application.java
index 077213b04d..3a98da82c9 100644
--- a/spring-rest-simple/src/main/java/org/baeldung/config/Application.java
+++ b/spring-rest-simple/src/main/java/org/baeldung/config/Application.java
@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@ package org.baeldung.config;
 
 import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.web.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;
 
 @EnableAutoConfiguration
 @ComponentScan("org.baeldung")
-public class Application extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {
+@SpringBootApplication
+public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
 
     public static void main(final String[] args) {
         SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
diff --git a/spring-rest-simple/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/spring-rest-simple/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index a439de8a05..0000000000
--- a/spring-rest-simple/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="
-      http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
-      http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0"
->
-
-    <display-name>Spring MVC Application</display-name>
-
-    <!-- Spring root -->
-     <context-param>
-        <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
-        <param-value>
-        	org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
-      	</param-value>
-    </context-param>
-    <context-param>
-        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
-        <param-value>org.baeldung.config</param-value>
-    </context-param>
- 
-    <listener>
-        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
-    </listener>
-
-    <!-- Spring child -->
-    <servlet>
-        <servlet-name>api</servlet-name>
-        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
-        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
-    </servlet>
-    <servlet-mapping>
-        <servlet-name>api</servlet-name>
-        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
-    </servlet-mapping>
-
-    <welcome-file-list>
-        <welcome-file/>
-    </welcome-file-list>
-
-</web-app>