Thymeleaf Sandbox: BigList, Spring Web MVC

This is a sandbox application, only used internally for development.

Contents

This sandbox repository contains an example application meant to test the use Thymeleaf rendering for very large amounts of markup using Spring Boot and Spring Web MVC (in comparison to Spring Web Reactive).

See also: https://github.com/thymeleaf/thymeleafsandbox-biglist-reactive

Building

To build this project you will need Maven 3. You can get it at:

 http://maven.apache.org

Clean compilation:

 mvn -U clean compile

Run the application (Spring Boot based, using netty as a web server):

 mvn spring-boot:run

Once started, the application should be available at:

 http://localhost:8080

Executing

This application offers several URLs:

• Index page:
  • / or /thymeleaf: index page using Thymeleaf.
  • /freemarker: index page using FreeMarker.
• Small listing (8,715 elements, based on the MIT-licensed Chinook database for SQLite):
  • /smalllist.thymeleaf: Small listing using Thymeleaf.
  • /smalllist.freemarker: Small listing using FreeMarker.
  • /smalllist.json: Small listing in JSON.
• Big listing (same 8,715 elements repeated 300 times = 2,614,500 elements):
  • /biglist.thymeleaf: Big listing using Thymeleaf.
  • /biglist.freemarker: Big listing using FreeMarker.
  • /biglist.json: Big listing in JSON.