pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>softuni</groupId>
    <artifactId>mvc-blog</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <parent>
        <!--The above declaration inherits all Spring Boot libraries and project settings from spring-boot-starter-parent-->
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <!--latest stable release as of August 2016-->
        <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>
    <!--All other Maven dependencies will be without an explicitly specified version, so Maven will detect the required version automatically-->

    <!--Adding dependency which will configure the Thymeleaf templating engine that will be used for the views-->
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>

</project>