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Removing Thymeleaf

Although the Broadleaf Commerce DemoSite shows a front-end that was built with the Thymeleaf tempalting engine, it is certainly possible to use a different templating language if you choose.

If you would like to completely remove depdencency on Thymeleaf JARs from the site project, follow these steps:

  1. Add the pom exclusion in your site pom.xml:

    <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
        <artifactId>thymeleaf-spring3</artifactId>
        <groupId>org.thymeleaf</groupId>
    </exclusion>
    <exclusion>
        <artifactId>thymeleaf</artifactId>
        <groupId>org.thymeleaf</groupId>
    </exclusion>
</exclusions>

  2. Delete the following bean from applicationContext-servlet.xml:

    <bean class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.web.BroadleafThymeleafViewResolver">

  3. Add the following bean overrides to your applicationContext.xml file:

    <bean id="blVariableExpressionEvaluator" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blDialect" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blVariableExpressions" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />

<bean id="blWebTemplateResolvers" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blWebCustomTemplateResolver" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blWebTemplateResolver" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blWebClasspathTemplateResolver" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blWebCommonClasspathTemplateResolver" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blWebTemplateEngine" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />

<bean id="blEmailTemplateResolvers" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blEmailTemplateResolver" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blEmailCustomTemplateResolver" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blEmailClasspathTemplateResolver" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blEmailTemplateEngine" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />

<bean id="thymeleafSpringStandardDialect" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blMessageResolver" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />

<bean id="blContentProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blDataDrivenEnumerationProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blResourceBundleProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />

<bean id="blAddSortLinkProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blCategoriesProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blFormProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blGoogleAnalyticsProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blHeadProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blNamedOrderProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blProductOptionDisplayProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blProductOptionValueProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blProductOptionsProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blPaginationPageLinkProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blPaginationSizeLinkProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blPaginationSortLinkProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blPriceTextDisplayProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blRatingsProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blRelatedProductProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blRemoveFacetValuesLinkProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blToggleFacetLinkProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blUrlRewriteProcessor" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />

<bean id="blHeadProcessorExtensionManager" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />
<bean id="blContentProcessorExtensionManager" class="org.broadleafcommerce.common.util.NullFactoryBean" />