Meet the Spring blog engine that integrates with your website using a straightforward API. Smooth, simple, and tasty content integration — that’s Butter.
So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the blog you build with ButterCMS.
Handy integration with Spring
Our Spring blog engine has a simple content API and drop-in Java SDK that makes the magic happen in minutes, not hours.
A truly zero-maintenance solution
With ButterCMS, you’ll never worry about security upgrades, hosting, or performance again.
You've got better things to do than build another blog
Drop our Spring blog engine into your app, and get back to more interesting problems.
ButterCMS is an API-based blog engine that integrates seamlessly with new and existing Spring apps. It's great for SEO, and provides a clean and modern user interface that your marketing team will love. You can deploy ButterCMS in minutes using our Java API client.
That leaves plenty of time for you and your marketing team to do what you do best: create killer apps with killer content.
After shopping the market, it was clear that ButterCMS was the perfect choice. It allows our developers to build powerful components and makes it easy for our marketing team to drive a better customer experience.
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Deploy our Java Spring starter in 30 seconds
Or follow the below commands to clone a copy of the repo from github, install dependencies, set your free Butter token, and
run your local server on localhost:8080/.
ButterCMS is the best Spring blog engine for a simple reason: Spring developers can build solutions that marketing people love. Our API allows your content gurus to quickly spin up high-converting blog templates, sidebars, related content features, and more, all using simple drag-and-drop functionality.
Our mission was to make it easy to integrate Butter with your existing Spring app in minutes. It’s so simple! To demonstrate, here’s a mini tutorial to give you a feel for the process of adding Butter to your Spring app.
See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your Spring app.
Seamless Spring components
Empower your marketing team to create a customized blog engine that aligns perfectly with your Spring components.
Components are the essential building blocks of any Spring app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease.
Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing Spring components and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.
The best Spring blog engine for SEO
ButterCMS gives you absolute control over on-page SEO ranking factors. Key SEO variables are built into our default post template, giving your marketing team direct access to configure all of these settings, and more.
How to integrate ButterCMS into your Spring application
Integrating the Butter blog engine into your Spring app is dead simple. Here's a mini tutorial to get a feel for setting up your blog home and blog post pages.
To display posts we create a simple /blog route in our app and fetch blog posts from the Butter API. See our API reference for additional options such as filtering by category or author. The response also includes some metadata we'll use for pagination.
com.yourorganization.app.controllers
@Controller public class BlogController { private IButterCMSClient butterCMSClient;
public BlogController(IButterCMSClient butterCMSClient) { this.butterCMSClient = butterCMSClient; }
Next we'll create a simple view atsrc/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/blog/blogs.jspthat displays our posts and pagination links:
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %> <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Hello! This is Java ButterCMS example!</title> </head> <body> <h2 class="hello-title">Hello! This is Java ButterCMS example!</h2> <h3>Here is a list of Posts</h3> <c:if test="${not empty tag}"> <h4>Tag: ${tag}</h4> </c:if> <c:if test="${not empty category}"> <h4>Category: ${category}</h4> </c:if> <ul> <c:forEach items="${blogs}" var="blog"> <li><a href="/blog/${blog["slug"]}">${blog["title"]}</a></li> </c:forEach> </ul> </body> </html>
We'll also create an additional route and controller method for displaying individual posts:
@RequestMapping("/blog/{slug}") public String getBlog(Model model, @PathVariable("slug") String slug) { PostResponse post = butterCMSClient.getPost(slug); model.addAttribute("blog", post.getData()); return "blog/blog"; }
The view for displaying a full post includes information such as author, publish date, and categories. See a full list of available post properties in ourAPI reference. We use the Page object for setting the HTML title and meta description in the tag of the page.
