ATTENTION: I do not recommend this example anymore! Better use JoinFaces

Spring Boot With JSF Sample

• Shows how to configure JSF 2.2.x with Spring Boot 1.2.x on Servlet API 3.x

Running

This setup can run in all possible ways:

• Either deploy on Tomcat inside Eclipse
• Or execute SpringBootFacesApplication as Java application
• Or run mvn spring-boot:run
• Or run mvn package and then:
  • either deploy target\projectname.war
  • or run java -jar target\projectname.war

More things shown

• How to configure Faces View Scope with Spring
• How to include PrimeFaces
• How to include a custom theme for PrimeFaces (in this case primefaces-bootstrap-theme)
• How to include Twitter Bootstrap CSS for responsive layout
• Spring Boot Actuator is added under /sysinfo path (try for example /sysinfo/metrics)
• How to write simple http tests