spring-servlet.xml configures

 spring-servlet.xml configuration

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
        xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.zetcode"/>
    <mvc:annotation-driven/>
    <mvc:default-servlet-handler/>

    <bean id="templateResolver" 
            class="org.thymeleaf.spring5.templateresolver.SpringResourceTemplateResolver">
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/templates/"/>
        <property name="suffix" value=".html"/>
        <property name="templateMode" value="HTML"/>
    </bean>

    <bean class="org.thymeleaf.spring5.view.ThymeleafViewResolver">
        <property name="templateEngine" ref="templateEngine"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="templateEngine" class="org.thymeleaf.spring5.SpringTemplateEngine">
        <property name="templateResolver" ref="templateResolver"/>
    </bean>

</beans>

The spring-servlet.xml configures the Spring web application. It enables component scanning, Spring web annotations (@Controller) and configures the Thymeleaf template.

<context:component-scan base-package="com.zetcode" />

This tells Spring where to look for classes with @Controller, @Repository, @Service, @Component annotations and register them. In our case, we have a controller with the @Controller annotation.

<mvc:annotation-driven/>

The <mvc:annotation-driven/> enables web based Spring annotations.

<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>

We need this tag to enable static HTML files. We have one static index.html for the home page.

<bean id="templateResolver" 
        class="org.thymeleaf.spring5.templateresolver.SpringResourceTemplateResolver">
    <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/templates/"/>
    <property name="suffix" value=".html"/>
    <property name="templateMode" value="HTML"/>
</bean>

<bean class="org.thymeleaf.spring5.view.ThymeleafViewResolver">
    <property name="templateEngine" ref="templateEngine"/>
</bean>

<bean id="templateEngine" class="org.thymeleaf.spring5.SpringTemplateEngine">
    <property name="templateResolver" ref="templateResolver"/>
</bean>

These lines configure Thymeleaf with a template engine, template view resolver, and a template resolver. In the template resolver we specify where the templates are located and their extensions.

WEB-INF/web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
            xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
            xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
            http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_4_0.xsd"
            version="4.0">
    
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>      
    
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
            org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
        </servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>    
    
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
</web-app>