Spring Boot

Yet another Java web framework

https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot

Getting Started Video Tutorials

• From Zero to Hero with Spring Boot (Brian Clozel of Pivotal) (Dec 14, 2017)
  • Code is here: https://github.com/bclozel/issues-dashboard

Books on O’Reilly Safari Library

Accessible from On-Campus IP Addresses, or through UCSB VPN:

• https://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/java/9781449374631

Videos

• Spring Boot MVC

Lots of samples

• https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/master/spring-boot-samples

Custom Error Pages

• https://hellokoding.com/spring-boot-hello-world-example-with-freemarker/

Making it work on Heroku

You must use this line in the heroku maven task. The part that says -Dserver.port=$PORT is particularly important.

<web>java -Dserver.port=$PORT  $JAVA_OPTS -jar target/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</web>

Template Engines

Freemarker

• http://zetcode.com/articles/springbootfreemarker/
  • https://github.com/pconrad-webapps/spring-boot-freemarker-zetcode

Thymeleaf

• https://spring.io/guides/gs/handling-form-submission/
  • Code (works): https://github.com/ucsb-cs56-pconrad/spring-boot-thymeleaf-forms
  • More complete version of code: https://github.com/spring-guides/gs-handling-form-submission.git
• http://zetcode.com/articles/springbootthymeleaf/
  • Code (may not be working yet): https://github.com/pconrad-webapps/spring-boot-thymeleaf-zetcode

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