Spring MVC + Thymeleaf Example

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'war'
archivesBaseName = 'Spring4'
version = '1' 
repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
    compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:1.2.3.RELEASE'
    compile 'org.thymeleaf:thymeleaf-spring4:3.0.0.ALPHA03'
    providedRuntime 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat:1.2.3.RELEASE'
}  

package com.concretepage.config;  
import org.springframework.context.MessageSource;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;
import org.thymeleaf.spring4.SpringTemplateEngine;
import org.thymeleaf.spring4.view.ThymeleafViewResolver;
import org.thymeleaf.templateresolver.ServletContextTemplateResolver;
@Configuration 
@ComponentScan("com.concretepage") 
@EnableWebMvc
public class AppConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter  {
    //start Thymeleaf specific configuration
    @Bean(name ="templateResolver")	
    public ServletContextTemplateResolver getTemplateResolver() {
    	ServletContextTemplateResolver templateResolver = new ServletContextTemplateResolver();
    	templateResolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/templates/");
    	templateResolver.setSuffix(".html");
    	templateResolver.setTemplateMode("XHTML");
	return templateResolver;
    }
    @Bean(name ="templateEngine")	    
    public SpringTemplateEngine getTemplateEngine() {
    	SpringTemplateEngine templateEngine = new SpringTemplateEngine();
    	templateEngine.setTemplateResolver(getTemplateResolver());
	return templateEngine;
    }
    @Bean(name="viewResolver")
    public ThymeleafViewResolver getViewResolver(){
    	ThymeleafViewResolver viewResolver = new ThymeleafViewResolver(); 
    	viewResolver.setTemplateEngine(getTemplateEngine());
	return viewResolver;
    }
    //end Thymeleaf specific configuration
    @Bean(name ="messageSource")
    public MessageSource getMessageSource() {
        ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource messageSource = new ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource();
        messageSource.setBasename("/WEB-INF/i18/blogmsg");
        messageSource.setDefaultEncoding("UTF-8");
        return messageSource;
    }
} 

package com.concretepage.config;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRegistration.Dynamic;
import org.springframework.web.WebApplicationInitializer;
import org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet;
public class WebAppInitializer implements WebApplicationInitializer {
	public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {  
        AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext ctx = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();  
        ctx.register(AppConfig.class);  
        ctx.setServletContext(servletContext);    
        Dynamic dynamic = servletContext.addServlet("dispatcher", new DispatcherServlet(ctx));  
        dynamic.addMapping("/");  
        dynamic.setLoadOnStartup(1);  
   }  
} 

package com.concretepage.bean;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
@Service
public class Writer {
	private String name;
	private String location;
	public Writer(){}
	public Writer(String name, String location) {
		this.name = name;
		this.location = location;
	}
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
	public String getLocation() {
		return location;
	}
	public void setLocation(String location) {
		this.location = location;
	}
	public List<Writer> getWriters() {
	        List<Writer> list = new ArrayList<>();
	        list.add(new Writer("Ram","Ayodhya"));
	        list.add(new Writer("Krishna","Mathura"));
	        list.add(new Writer("Shankar","Himalaya"));
		return list;
	}
} 

myblog.title= Thymeleaf Blog
myblog.msg= Find the demo for Spring and Thymeleaf integration.
myblog.writers= Bloggers 

package com.concretepage.controller;
import java.util.Date;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import com.concretepage.bean.Writer;
@Controller
public class BlogController {
	@Autowired
	private Writer writer;
	@RequestMapping(value = "/blog")
	 public ModelAndView getBlog(ModelAndView mv) {
		mv.addObject("currentDate", new Date());
		mv.addObject("writers", writer.getWriters());
	        mv.setViewName("myblog");
	        return mv;
	}
} 

<!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "http://www.thymeleaf.org/dtd/xhtml1-strict-thymeleaf-4.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">
  <head>
    <title th:text="#{myblog.title}">Blog Title</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <h3 th:text="#{myblog.title}"> Blog Title </h3>
    Date : <b th:text="${currentDate}">Sat Oct 24 2015</b><br/>
    <p th:text="#{myblog.msg}">Blog Message</p>
    <h3 th:text="#{myblog.writers}"> Writers </h3>
    <table>
        <tr th:each="writer : ${writers}">
          <td th:text="${writer.name}">name</td>
          <td> - </td>
        <td th:text="${writer.location}">location</td>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>