By default, where does Spring Boot expect views to be stored?

Question

I\'m experimenting on re-writing my configuration-heavy, vanilla Spring MVC project using Spring Boot. I started a brand new Spring Boot project in IntelliJ using the Spring

Answer 1

According to answer given by @Jasbin karki I tried and found placing your html or jsp files in main->webapp->views folder(you should create the webapp & views folders) and adding the following lines in application.properties file does the task. Add the following in application.properties:

spring.mvc.view.prefix=/views/

spring.mvc.view.suffix=.html //or .jsp- if its a jsp file

Answer 2

application.properties

Remove:

spring.mvc.view.prefix=/view/
spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp

Add:

spring.thymeleaf.prefix= /WEB-INF/views/
spring.thymeleaf.suffix= .html

pom.xml

Remove jasper dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Add thymeleaf dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
</dependency>

Details: Using thymeleaf instead of jsp