This is a bare-bones scaffold with the single purpose of serving static content using a Spring Boot application with an embedded Tomcat inside.

It produces a single fat executable jar, with all dependencies and the content in it.

Just drop your site content in the webroot, build the jar and then run it!

$ ./buildAndRun.sh

The server listens on localhost:8080.

Yes, you need

• Java JDK
• Apache Maven 3

src/main/resouces/public

This is called "externalized configuration" in Spring Boot, basically add an application.properties file, set environment variables, or use a combination of both.

To change port number, add a file src/main/resources/application.properties and put server.port=8090 in it for example.

69.1 Externalize the configuration of SpringApplication

See 70. Embedded servlet containers

Spring Boot Docs / 27.1.4 Static Content

Yes you can