Spring MVC 4 Quickstart Maven Archetype

Summary

The project is a Maven archetype for Spring MVC 4 web application.

Generated project characteristics

No-xml Spring MVC 4 web application for Servlet 3.0 environment
Thymeleaf, Bootstrap
JPA 2.0 (Hibernate/HSQLDB/Spring Data JPA)
MongoDB (Spring Data Mongo)
JUnit/Mockito
Spring Security 3.2

Installation

To install the archetype in your local repository execute following commands:

    git clone https://github.com/kolorobot/spring-mvc-quickstart-archetype.git
    cd spring-mvc-quickstart-archetype
    mvn clean install

Create a project

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

Run the project

	mvn test tomcat7:run

Test on the browser

http://localhost:8080/

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

Import archetype URI by Import ... > Projects from Git > Clone URI
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)

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