Spring MVC 4 Quickstart Maven Archetype

Summary

The project is a Maven archetype for Spring MVC 4 web application. Used by Cody IT Solutios to kickstart his applications.

Generated project characteristics

• No-xml Spring MVC 4 web application for Servlet 3.0 environment
• Thymeleaf as template engine.
• JPA 2.1 (Hibernate/HSQLDB or MySQL/Spring Data JPA)
• JUnit/Mockito
• Spring Security 3.2
• Logback for logging
• Uses Bower on client side as package manager with Bootstrap 3 for Sass, jQuery, AngularJS as dependencies.
• Supports Internationalization (i18n)

Future Features

• Add Grunt as client side task runner.
• Add Production and Testing profiles to pom.xml

Installation

run mvn clean install to install the archetype in your local repository

Create a project

mvn archetype:generate \
    -DarchetypeGroupId=com.github.spring-mvc-archetypes \
    -DarchetypeArtifactId=spring-mvc-quickstart \
    -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.0-SNAPSHOT \
    -DgroupId=my.groupid \
    -DartifactId=my-artifactId \
    -Dversion=version

Run the project

mvn test tomcat7:run

Note: No additional services are required in order to start the application. Mongo DB configuration is in place but it is not used in the code.

Creating a new project in Eclipse

• Install the archetype in local repository with mvn install
• Go to Preferences > Maven > Archetypes and Add Local Catalog
• Select the catalog from file (archetype-catalog.xml)
• Create new Maven project and select the archetype (remember so select Include snapshot archetypes).

Thanks to kolorobot for starting this archetype.