Spring Boot Tutorial-Spring Boot+ Gradle

In this post we create a Hello World Spring Boot Application using Gradle build tool.

Lets Begin-

If Gradle plugin has not been installed for your eclipse, go to Help->Eclipse Marketplace. Search gradle and install the Buildship Gradle Integration 1.0. This will install the gradle plugin


Now go to File->New->select Gradle Project. Name it as spring-boot-gradle.




The gradle project we will be creating is as follows

Along with the Spring Boot dependencies we have also tomcat-embed-jasper and jstl jar dependencies as these are required when jsp view is used. Modify the build.gradle as follows-

buildscript {
	ext {
		springBootVersion = '1.4.3.RELEASE'
	}
	repositories {
		mavenCentral()
	}
	dependencies {
		classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:")
	}
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'

jar {
	baseName = 'boot-gradle'
	version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
}
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
targetCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
	mavenCentral()
}


dependencies {
	compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web','org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-jasper'
	,'javax.servlet:jstl')
	testCompile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test')
}

Create the BootGradleApplication.java as below-

package com.javainuse;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class BootGradleApplication {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		SpringApplication.run(BootGradleApplication.class, args);
	}
}

@RequestMapping maps /welcome.html request to firstPage() method.

package com.javainuse;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

@Controller
public class TestController {

	@RequestMapping("/welcome.html")
	public ModelAndView firstPage() {
		return new ModelAndView("welcome");
	}

}

In the application.properties we define the prefix and suffix as follows. So in the above controller the /welcome.html correctly maps to /WEB-INF/jsp/welcome.jsp.

spring.mvc.view.prefix:/WEB-INF/jsp/
spring.mvc.view.suffix:.jsp

Last we define the welcome.jsp as below-

<h1>Welcome to Spring Boot</h1>

Compile and the run the SpringBootHelloWorldApplication.java as a Java application.
Go to localhost:8080/welcome.html

Download Source Code

Download it -
Spring Boot Hello World using Gradle

See Also
Spring Boot Hello World Application- Create simple controller and jsp view using Maven
Spring Boot Tutorial-Spring Data JPA
Spring Boot + Simple Security Configuration
Pagination using Spring Boot Simple Example
Spring Boot + ActiveMQ Hello world Example
Spring Boot + Swagger Example Hello World Example
Spring Boot + Swagger- Understanding the various Swagger Annotations
Spring Boot Main Menu
Spring Boot Interview Questions