diff --git a/starter-microservice-springboot-web/repository/0.0.3/compile-pom.xml b/starter-microservice-springboot-web/repository/0.0.3/compile-pom.xml
index c0f73d6..d716658 100644
--- a/starter-microservice-springboot-web/repository/0.0.3/compile-pom.xml
+++ b/starter-microservice-springboot-web/repository/0.0.3/compile-pom.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,18 @@
                    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+		<dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
+            <version>1.3.0.RELEASE</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
-</project>
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+</project>
diff --git a/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/resources/templates/hello.html b/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/resources/templates/hello.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d7ae26f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/resources/templates/hello.html
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<!--
+  Copyright (c) 2016 IBM Corp.
+
+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE HTML>
+<html xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">
+
+<head>
+    <title>Liberty App Accelerator MVC Sample</title>
+    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
+</head>
+<body>
+    <h1 th:text="'Hello, ' + ${entity} + '!'"/>
+    <p>Welcome to your Liberty Spring MVC Application</p>
+    <p>Thanks for generating this project using the app accelerator.</p>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/description.html b/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/description.html
index fa83c6d..2246d5d 100644
--- a/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/description.html
+++ b/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/description.html
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@
   limitations under the License.
 -->
 <div>
-	<h2>Spring Boot with Spring MVC</h2>
-	<p>Inside the project there is a application.springboot.web package
-		containing two classes:</p>
+	<h2>Spring Boot with Spring MVC and REST controllers</h2>
+	<p>Inside the project there is a application.springboot.web package	containing these classes:</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li><code>SpringBootLibertyApplication</code>: The entry point for the SpringBoot application.</li>
-		<li><code>LibertyHelloController</code>: A Spring MVC endpoint which you can access at <a href="springbootweb">/springbootweb</a></li>
+		<li><code>LibertyMVController</code>: A Spring MVC endpoint which you can access at <a href="springbootmvc">/springbootmvc</a></li>
+		<li><code>LibertyRESTController</code>: A Spring REST endpoint which you can access at <a href="springbootrest">/springbootrest</a></li>
 	</ul>
 	<p>There is also a test class named <code>it.springboot.web.HelloControllerTest</code> that will test the Spring MVC endpoint to ensure it is working.</p>
 </div>
diff --git a/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/sample/src/main/java/application/springboot/web/LibertyMVController.java b/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/sample/src/main/java/application/springboot/web/LibertyMVController.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac33e91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/sample/src/main/java/application/springboot/web/LibertyMVController.java
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package application.springboot.web;
+
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
+import org.springframework.ui.Model;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
+
+@Controller
+public class LibertyMVController {
+
+    @RequestMapping("/springbootmvc")
+    public String greeting(@RequestParam(value="entity", required=false, defaultValue="World") String entity, Model model) {
+        model.addAttribute("entity", entity);
+        return "hello";
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/sample/src/main/java/application/springboot/web/LibertyHelloController.java b/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/sample/src/main/java/application/springboot/web/LibertyRestController.java
similarity index 85%
rename from starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/sample/src/main/java/application/springboot/web/LibertyHelloController.java
rename to starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/sample/src/main/java/application/springboot/web/LibertyRestController.java
index aff3e2f..7e5583d 100644
--- a/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/sample/src/main/java/application/springboot/web/LibertyHelloController.java
+++ b/starter-microservice-springboot-web/src/main/webapp/sample/src/main/java/application/springboot/web/LibertyRestController.java
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
 
 @RestController
-public class LibertyHelloController {
+public class LibertyRestController {
 
-    @RequestMapping("/springbootweb")
+    @RequestMapping("/springbootrest")
     public String hello() {
-        return "Hello from Spring Boot MVC running on Liberty!";
+        return "Hello from your Spring Boot Rest Controller running on Liberty!";
     }
 
 }
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