How to disable freemarker templates in Spring Boot

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I do not use freemarker templates in Spring Boot, But on startup Spring Boot trying to read the templates path and failing because there are none. Following is the exception I am getting on startup

[main]            ERROR o.s.boot.SpringApplication - Application startup failed - [reportFailure:840] - [] - [] 
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'freeMarkerConfigurer' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/freemarker/FreeMarkerAutoConfiguration$FreeMarkerWebConfiguration.class]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: DEFAULT_INCOMPATIBLE_IMPROVEMENTS
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1628)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:555)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:483)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:761)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:866)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:542)
	at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:122)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:762)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:372)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:316)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1187)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1176)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: DEFAULT_INCOMPATIBLE_IMPROVEMENTS
	at org.springframework.ui.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory.newConfiguration(FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory.java:320)
	at org.springframework.ui.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory.createConfiguration(FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory.java:250)
	at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurer.afterPropertiesSet(FreeMarkerConfigurer.java:116)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1687)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1624)
	... 21 common frames omitted

3 Answers

7 years ago by Divya

If you are not using freemarker templates in your Spring Boot application, you can disable them in two ways.

1. Using application.properties

Add the following configuration to your application.properties file

spring.freemarker.check-template-location=false

2. Using Annotations

On your Spring Boot main class add the following annotation to disable Auto Configuration of freemarker templates

@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = { FreeMarkerAutoConfiguration.class })

7 years ago by Karthik Divi

Sorry, misleaded with FreeMarkerServletWebConfoguration.

4 years ago by Simon Logic

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'freeMarkerConfiguration' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/freemarker/FreeMarkerNonWebConfiguration.class]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is freemarker.core.Configurable $UnknownSettingException: Unknown FreeMarker configuration setting: "recognize_standard_file_extensions" at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1804) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:620) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:542) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$ doGetBean $0(AbstractBeanFactory.java:335) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:234) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:333) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:208) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:936) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:918) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:583) at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:731) at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:408) at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:307) at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1303) at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1292) at com.isgn.powerhub.alertsystem.AlertsystemApplication.main(AlertsystemApplication.java:15) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.springframework.boot.devtools.restart.RestartLauncher.run(RestartLauncher.java:49) Caused by: freemarker.core.Configurable$ UnknownSettingException: Unknown FreeMarker configuration setting: "recognize_standard_file_extensions"
at freemarker.core.Configurable.unknownSettingException(Configurable.java:1703)
at freemarker.core.Configurable.setSetting(Configurable.java:1636)
at freemarker.template.Configuration.setSetting(Configuration.java:2312)
at freemarker.core.Configurable.setSettings(Configurable.java:1770)
at org.springframework.ui.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory.createConfiguration(FreeMarkerConfigurationFactory.java:276)
at org.springframework.ui.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurationFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(FreeMarkerConfigurationFactoryBean.java:63)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1863)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1800)
... 20 common frames omitted

2 years ago by mahaboob