How to load a form with camunda embedded REST and Spring?

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I took the project at https://github.com/camunda/camunda-bpm-examples/tree/master/deployment/embedded-spring-rest and tried to load a html form which I made and included in the src/main/webapp/forms folder. Now I want simply to load the form when a specific process starts. I tried several things including @RequestMappping annotation but I always got the same link when the process started saying that the resource is not available:

http://localhost:8080/camunda-quickstart-embedded-spring-rest/WEB-INF/classes/org/camunda/bpm/example/loanapproval/Starter.java

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This is my simple process and I want the form to be loaded when the first user task starts. Where do I configure the resources? I am not using camunda embedded tomcat with the web interface (cockpit, tasklist, ...), just a plain tomcat where I deployed the .WAR file. My .html file is also not written in camunda notation, it's also just a plain html file. I put embedded:deployment:forms/request-loan.html in the formKey but it also doesn't work.

Does anybody have an idea? I guess it is just one line of code somewhere, that I have to add so that the right resource is requested and my form opens. This is how my project structure looks like

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Thank you!

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To make forms work, you will have to provide a ProcessApplication and an (empty) META-INF/processes.xml.

Either use the ServletProcessApplication as a base class or make sure that your process-application sets the context-path property correctly:

properties.put(PROP_SERVLET_CONTEXT_PATH, contextPath);