I was trying my hand at writing a sample Spring Boot application.

My initial thought was it's an easy example to follow and write but I am not able to print a simple statement upon hitting my endpoint.

I don't want to use any view (HTML,JSP etc) right now as I want to learn the backend first.

I have followed:

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  Got the following exception at console:

  

  CodePudding user response：

  So the solution as pointed out by xerx593 is below:

  1. Make sure to select packaging as war/jar in