The problem:
Using Spring 4, I am getting this when visiting a webpage
Whitelabel Error Page
This application has no explicit mapping for /error, so you are seeing this as a fallback.
Fri Aug 15 16:41:29 BST 2014
There was an unexpected error (type=Not Found, status=404).
What I have:
I have this Main class:
// src/main/java/abc/Main.java
package abc;
import abc.web.WebAppConfig;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(WebAppConfig.class);
}
}
Then I have this WebAppConfig.class (currently with just some configuration annotations):
// src/main/java/abc/web/WebAppConfig.java
package abc.web;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
@ComponentScan
@EnableAutoConfiguration
public class WebAppConfig {
}
And this controller HomeController.java:
// src/main/java/abc/web/HomeController.java
package abc.web;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import static org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod.GET;
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/")
public class HomeController {
@RequestMapping(method = GET)
public String home() {
System.out.println("HELLO !!");
return "home";
}
}
The HELLO !! shows up in the logs.
And finally I have a html file at src/main/java/abc/webapp/home.html
, with just some html tags including a p
tag with Hello, world!
.
The question:
I understand that I am missing the way of rendering the view, but I searched a couple of questions on stackoverflow and haven't find a solution yet.
Can someone explain how can I get Spring to render a webpage ? What am I missing ?
Thanks in advance :)