Spring Boot Starter Project

Initial project setup for Spring Boot Web-Application using Thymeleaf...

Recommended Development Environment

• Eclipse
• Maven

Basic Project Setup

• Spring Boot Starter Web
• Spring Boot Starter Tomcat
• Spring Boot Starter Thymeleaf
• HTML5 Boilerplate
• Embedded H2 for session management
• H2 database for persisting application data

how to make your data persitent across spring-boot restarts

• By default application data is stored in in-memory database
• to persist your data, the following line within application.properties need to be changed from
  • myapp.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:mem:myappdb;
• to
  • myapp.datasource.jdbcurl=jdbc:h2:file:/path2databasefile;

Deployment

Build

mvn package

Either deploy generated WAR File to Tomcat or directly run using

mvn spring-boot:run

### or alternatively build and run in one command
mvn package; mvn spring-boot:run

Connect

localhost:8080

initialization code

e.g. for creating entities for testing, as the configured h2 database is in-memory only.

at.ac.fhsalzburg.swd.spring.startup.CommandLineAppStartupRunner.run

connect to local database using h2-console (browser)

http://localhost:8080/h2-console