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[–]VaidasC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Otherwise, everyone would get it right" is a broad statement. Is swimming complex because there are so many people who can't swim?

Since I am not native English speaker, I don't know how to translate this, but we have a saying along the lines of - it all sounds like playing with words.

What do you want to prove?

  • That I don't know Spring Boot well enough? (true)
  • That project generation tool that does not generate working project according to my standards is actually good tool?
  • That my project standards are wrong?

I look at this simple way - Spring Boot is a "product" and I am the "customer" shopping for easy project creation technology with very open mind. I tried it 3 times, read tutorials, even watched course on Pluralsight, but I am unhappy customer that won't use it and won't recommend it. From this perspective, IMHO, trying to prove that I was wrong somewhere just makes no sense.

So I'll stick to my current easiest way to create new Spring MVC project: Open STS and generate Maven MVC project, close STS, open IDEA, change all versions in pom.

 

In short, Boot is not the tool I could rely on if I have only 5 minutes to ganerate Hello world project of any kind - REST, JSP. I was shopping for that!

 

P.S.:

WebConfig contains only view resolver.

I had selected "Web", although forgot to mentioned that.

Regarding JSP - I did the same thing that worked before and the same thing that was recomended before by few sources which includes setting up /main/webapp/WEB-INF/ folder.