Migrated spring-mvc-basics to a Spring Boot project

spring-mvc-basics/pom.xml

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
@@ -6,87 +7,49 @@
     <artifactId>spring-mvc-basics</artifactId>
     <version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <name>spring-mvc-basics</name>
-    <packaging>war</packaging>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <parent>
-        <artifactId>parent-spring-5</artifactId>
+        <artifactId>parent-boot-2</artifactId>
         <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
         <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        <relativePath>../parent-spring-5</relativePath>
+        <relativePath>../parent-boot-2</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
-            <version>${spring.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <!-- to enable JSP -->
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
-            <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
-            <version>${javax.servlet-api.version}</version>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
-            <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp-api</artifactId>
-            <version>${javax.jsp-api.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
             <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
             <version>${jstl.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-
-        <!-- Jackson -->
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
-            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
-            <version>${spring.version}</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
-            <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-            <version>${jayway.json-path.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.rest-assured</groupId>
-            <artifactId>rest-assured</artifactId>
-            <version>${rest-assured.version}</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hamcrest-all</artifactId>
-            <version>${hamcrest.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
-        <finalName>spring-mvc-basics</finalName>
+        <plugins>
-        <resources>
+            <plugin>
-            <resource>
+                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-                <filtering>true</filtering>
+                <configuration>
-            </resource>
+                    <mainClass>com.baeldung.Application</mainClass>
-        </resources>
+                    <layout>JAR</layout>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
     </build>
-
-    <properties>
-        <javax.servlet-api.version>4.0.1</javax.servlet-api.version>
-        <javax.jsp-api.version>2.3.3</javax.jsp-api.version>
-        <jayway.json-path.version>2.4.0</jayway.json-path.version>
-        <rest-assured.version>4.0.0</rest-assured.version>
-        <hamcrest.version>1.3</hamcrest.version>
-    </properties>
-
 </project>
 

spring-mvc-basics/src/main/java/com/baeldung/Application.java

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+package com.baeldung;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+
+@SpringBootApplication
+public class Application {
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
+    }
+}

spring-mvc-basics/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/web/config/WebConfig.java

@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 package com.baeldung.spring.web.config;
 
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
 import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.ViewResolver;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ViewControllerRegistry;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurer;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver;
@@ -13,9 +11,9 @@ import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ResourceBundleViewResolver;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.XmlViewResolver;
 
-@EnableWebMvc
+//@EnableWebMvc
+//@ComponentScan(basePackages = { "com.baeldung.web.controller" })
 @Configuration
-@ComponentScan(basePackages = { "com.baeldung.web.controller" })
 public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
 
     @Override

spring-mvc-basics/src/main/resources/application.properties

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+server.servlet.context-path=/spring-mvc-basics

spring-mvc-basics/src/test/java/com/baeldung/SpringContextIntegrationTest.java

@@ -1,17 +1,9 @@
 package com.baeldung;
 
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
-import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
-import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
-import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
-import org.springframework.test.context.support.AnnotationConfigContextLoader;
-import org.springframework.test.context.web.WebAppConfiguration;
 
-import com.baeldung.config.AppInitializer;
+@SpringBootTest
-
-@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
-@ContextConfiguration(classes = { AppInitializer.class }, loader = AnnotationConfigContextLoader.class)
-@WebAppConfiguration
 public class SpringContextIntegrationTest {
 
     @Test