How to disable Spring Boot's autoconfiguration for Apache Velocity?

Question

I'm experimenting with Spring Boot (1.1.9.RELEASE) and Apache Velocity (1.7) with the intention of using Velocity as a templating tool for generating emails. I'm using Thymeleaf (2.1.3.RELEASE) for web templates.

Spring Boot's Autoconfiguration detects Velocity on the classpath during start up and adds it as a web view resolver. While this is brilliant, it's not what I want so I tried

@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = {VelocityAutoConfiguration.class})
public class Application {

but I still ended up with a velocityViewResolver bean once the application had started up.

Any idea how I might go about disabling this automatic configuration?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Answer 1

With Spring Boot 1.2.5, disabling the autoconfiguration on the main application class seems to be enough:

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = { VelocityAutoConfiguration.class })

Edit I don't exactly know since when that works, but now (Spring Boot 1.3.2) you can also set :

spring.velocity.enabled=false

in application.properties.