The purpose of this tutorial was to show how to combine Spring Boot with JSF and Primefaces in order to create a simple micro-service with an attractive front-end.

There are other tutorials on the web that people have done but I wanted to demonstrate the official Spring way, particularly I wanted to show how easy and aesthetic it can be.

This demo covers:

• Spring Boot Autoconfiguration
• Spring Data JPA
• Spring Rest
• Embedded Tomcat
• Spring Actuator
• JSF and Primefaces
• Spring/JSF interop (SpringBeanFacesELResolver)
• Jackson Repository Populators

You can find more information about this demo on my website at: Spring Boot with JSF/Primefaces

Added OcpSoft Rewrite to the project, this rewrites the JSF URL schema to look clean and modern without file extensions. Note that Omnifaces doesn't work with Spring Boot.