Simple Spring Web App isn't working in Tomcat - java

I'm currently learning Spring MVC and making a simple Hello World web application with it. However, I have no idea why its not working (The WebApplicationInitializer doesn't get invoked).
Here's the pom.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>springmvctest</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>springmvctest Maven Webapp</name>
<!-- FIXME change it to the project's website -->
<url>http://www.example.com</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<maven.compiler.source>18</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>18</maven.compiler.target>
<java.version>18</java.version>
<lombok.version>1.18.24</lombok.version>
<log4jdbc.log4j2.version>1.16</log4jdbc.log4j2.version>
<rest.assured.version>2.3.3</rest.assured.version>
<start-class>java.WebInit</start-class>
</properties>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.6.4</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
<version>5.0.1.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
<version>1.8.12</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<version>${lombok.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bgee.log4jdbc-log4j2</groupId>
<artifactId>log4jdbc-log4j2-jdbc4.1</artifactId>
<version>${log4jdbc.log4j2.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.jayway.restassured</groupId>
<artifactId>rest-assured</artifactId>
<version>${rest.assured.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>springmvctest</finalName>
<sourceDirectory> src/main/ </sourceDirectory>
<pluginManagement><!-- lock down plugins versions to avoid using Maven defaults (may be moved to parent pom) -->
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>springloaded</artifactId>
<version>${spring-loaded.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
</plugin>
<!-- see http://maven.apache.org/ref/current/maven-core/default-bindings.html#Plugin_bindings_for_war_packaging -->
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.2</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.8.0</version>
<configuration>
<source>18</source>
<target>18</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.22.1</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.8.2</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>
Here's the WebApplicationInitializer implementation:
package java;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletRegistration;
import org.springframework.web.WebApplicationInitializer;
import org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet;
public class WebInit implements WebApplicationInitializer {
#Override
public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) {
AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
context.register(WebConfig.class);
context.setServletContext(servletContext);
System.out.println("hi");
// Create and register the DispatcherServlet
DispatcherServlet servlet = new DispatcherServlet(context);
ServletRegistration.Dynamic registration = servletContext.addServlet("app", servlet);
registration.setLoadOnStartup(1);
registration.addMapping("/");
}
}
Here's the WebConfig:
package java;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ViewResolver;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView;
#Configuration
#EnableWebMvc
#ComponentScan("java")
public class WebConfig {
#Bean
public ViewResolver viewResolver() {
InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
viewResolver.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
viewResolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/views/");
viewResolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
return viewResolver;
}
}
And finally here's the Controller implementation:
package java;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
#Controller
#RequestMapping("/")
public class TestController {
#RequestMapping(value = "/test", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String testMethod (Model model) {
model.addAttribute("greeting", "Hello World 2");
return "welcome";
}
}
I have used clean install and run the .war on the Tomcat server
I tried entering 'http://localhost:8080/springmvctest/test' but it gave me a 404 error on the web, and no error in the output.
There are also no mentions of Spring in the output whatsoever, so I assume that Tomcat doesn't detect Spring ?
I'm using Tomcat 10.0.27 and VSCode as the text editor.


Using the Spring Boot framework will be written as follows
Spring Boot 3
Project Structure
├── pom.xml
└── src
└── main
├── java
│   └── com
│   └── example
│   └── springmvctest
│   ├── DemoSpringbootJspApplication.java
│   └── TestController.java
├── resources
│   └── application.properties
└── webapp
├── index.jsp
└── WEB-INF
└── views
└── welcome.jsp
pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1</version>
<!--<version>2.7.6</version>-->
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>springmvctest</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0</version>
<name>springmvctest</name>
<description>springmvctest</description>
<properties>
<java.version>17</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
DemoSpringbootJspApplication.java
package com.example.springmvctest;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;
#SpringBootApplication
public class DemoSpringbootJspApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
#Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(DemoSpringbootJspApplication.class);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(DemoSpringbootJspApplication.class, args);
}
}
TestController.java
package com.example.springmvctest;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import java.util.Map;
#Controller
#RequestMapping("/")
public class TestController {
#RequestMapping(value = "/test", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String testMethod (Model model) {
model.addAttribute("greeting", "Hello World 2");
return "welcome";
}
}
application.properties
spring.mvc.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/views/
spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp
welcome.jsp
<%# page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Welcome</title>
</head>
<%
// debug
System.out.println("webapp / WEB-INF / views / welcome.jsp ");
%>
<body>
<h1 class="color-red">Wecome! ${greeting} </h1>
</body>
</html>
Package
mvn clean package
Deploy and start
Put traget/springmvctest.war to apache-tomcat-10.1.4/webapps/
Startup tomcat
Test
Run Command
curl http://localhost:8080/springmvctest/test
Result
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Welcome</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 class="color-red">Wecome! Hello World 2 </h1>
</body>
</html>


Spring 2 / Spring 5 will not work on Tomcat 10, because Tomcat 10 is working with jakarta packages that are not present in Spring 2 / Spring 5, they are using javax packages. Either downgrade to Tomcat 9 or upgrade to Spring 3 / Spring 6 if you want to use Tomcat 10.

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<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Java class:
package com.cat.ots.controllers;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
#Controller
public class DemoController {
#GetMapping("/hello")
public String sayHello(Model theModel) {
theModel.addAttribute("theDate", new java.util.Date());
return "helloworld";
}
}
File Structure:
Any help is appreciated
EDIT:
answer I was looking is found here - Issue With Spring: There was an unexpected error (type=Not Found, status=404)
Add component scanning for packages that are not in the same package, or in sub-packages, of the main class.

you have to configure viewResolver and internalResourceView Resolvers to serve jsp/html files find the below code snippet go through the link
package com.howtodoinjava.app.controller;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ViewResolverRegistry;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView;
#Configuration
#EnableWebMvc
#ComponentScan
public class MvcConfiguration extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter
{
#Override
public void configureViewResolvers(ViewResolverRegistry registry) {
InternalResourceViewResolver resolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
resolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/view/");
resolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
resolver.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
registry.viewResolver(resolver);
}
}

Spring with maven, jar packaging, not displaying welcome.jsp page

Hi I am using Spring boot with maven jar packaging. My project structure looks like this
I am starting my project from command promt with this command:
mvn package && java -jar target/ProjekatNekretnine-0.0.1.jar, and it starts perfect. Than I go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/users/home and I do not get my welcome.jsp page. My controller class looks like this:
UserController class:
package com.projekat.nekretnine.controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.validation.BindingResult;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
import com.projekat.nekretnine.Model.Korisnik;
#RestController
#RequestMapping(value="api/users")
public class UserController {
#RequestMapping(value = "/home")
public String welcome(Model model) {
return "welcome";
}
}
I think that my welcome method should return my welcome.jsp file, but instead it writes "welcome" to the page. Why is that so? What am I doing wrong?
My welcome.jsp file looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">
<head>
<title>Getting Started: Serving Web Content</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is working.</h1>
</body>
</html>
So you see that it shouldn't write welcome.
Here is my pom.xml for you to take a look:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.projekat.nekretnine</groupId>
<artifactId>ProjekatNekretnine</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1</version>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.4.2.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
<artifactId>jjwt</artifactId>
<version>0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<!-- <version>5.1.30</version> -->
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
One more thing, when I created maven project, I selected that the packaging should be JAR, not WAR. I don't know if I need now web.xml or other xml files, I think not. Maybe the mistake is where I put my static files, if that's the problem, can you tell me where to put tham?
And I tried to use #Controller, instead of #RestController in my UserController class, and still the same problem.
Thank you in advance.

The behaviour your are experiencing is normal.
This happens because you instructed your controller( specifically your rest-controller ) to return a String object when it hits /api/users/home endpoint.
If you however want to expose a page(view) in this endpoint you should configure your spring-boot to use a InternalResourceViewResolver.
You could take a look at a similar question Configure ViewResolver with Spring Boot and annotations gives No mapping found for HTTP request with URI error. and apply the changes for your controller to return the welcome page.

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