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Thy meleaf Tutorial: Thy meleaf + Spring Document version:- 18 April 2017 Proj ect version: 3.0.5.RELEASE Proj ect web site: http://www.thy meleaf.or Pa e 1 of 34 Pref ace This tutorial explains how Thy meleaf can be inte rated with the Sprin Framework, especially (but not only) Sprin MVC. Note that Thy meleaf has inte rations for both versions 3.x and 4.x of the Sprin Framework, provided by two separate libraries called thymeleaf-spring3 and thymeleaf-spring4 . These libraries are packa ed in separate .jar files ( thymeleaf-spring3-{version}.jar and thymeleaf-spring4-{version}.jar ) and need to be added to your classpath in order to use Thy meleaf’s Sprin inte rations in your application. The code samples and example application in this tutorial make use of Spring 4.x and its correspondin Thy meleaf inte rations, but the contents of this text are valid also for Sprin 3.x. If your application uses Sprin 3.x, all you have to do is replace the org.thymeleaf.spring4 packa e with org.thymeleaf.spring3 in the code samples. Pa e 2 of 34 1 Integrating Thy meleaf with Spring Thy meleaf offers a set of Sprin inte rations that allow you to use it as a fully-featured substitute for JSP in Sprin MVC applications. These inte rations will allow you to: Make the mapped methods in your Sprin MVC @Controller obj ects forward to templates mana ed by Thy meleaf, exactly like you do with JSPs. Use Spring Expression Language (Sprin EL) instead of OGNL in your