Get started quickly with Spring 5 using Spring MVC Archetype

Spring 5 GA got released so I released the new version of Spring MVC Archetype.

Create a project

To create a really basic application using the archetype simply run the following command in your shell:

    mvn archetype:generate \
        -DarchetypeGroupId=pl.codeleak \
        -DarchetypeArtifactId=spring-mvc-quickstart \
        -DarchetypeVersion=5.0.0 \
        -DgroupId=my.groupid \
        -DartifactId=my-artifactId \
        -Dversion=version \
        -DarchetypeRepository=http://kolorobot.github.io/spring-mvc-quickstart-archetype

Changes

Spring IO Platform

Since I am using the Spring IO Platform (Brussels-SR5) in my archetype, I needed to manually override Spring version to 5.0.0.RELEASE:

<spring.version>5.0.0.RELEASE</spring.version>

Spring MVC

Spring MVC is built against different version of Jackson, hence Jackson version is overridden as well:

<jackson.version>2.9.1</jackson.version>

Thymeleaf

Thymeleaf 3 Support for Spring 5 did not go GA yet, but there is a release candidate in Maven Central that can be used:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.thymeleaf</groupId>
    <artifactId>thymeleaf-spring5</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.7.RC1</version>
</dependency>

Source code

https://github.com/kolorobot/spring-mvc-quickstart-archetype