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

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

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.