spring-boot w/ embedded tomcat doesn't dispatch requests to controller

Question

I have an application using spring-boot and an embedded Tomcat container.

As far as I can tell, my code is the same as the spring-boot sample project. However, when I ru

Answer 1

It turns out the issue was the component scanning configuration. Even though the @ComponentScan annotation was used, the controller was under a separate package, so Spring never included it in the dispatcher.

Adding @ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.my.controller")) solved my issue.