Spring boot downloading jsp file

Question

I am using spring boot simple application for displaying a JSP. However instead of rendering the JSP the page gets downloaded in the browser. Please suggest?

Answer 1

Within Maven dependencies check the tomcat-embed version and find the relevant tomcat-jasper version dependency in the maven central. This jar is required for JSP compilation. Since it is not compiled it comes as a downloadable.

    
        org.apache.tomcat
        tomcat-jasper
        9.0.19
    

My embed tomcat version was 9.0.19, and I got the jasper relevant for that version.