spring not displaying .jsp page in the browser though @requestmapping function is working

[Souranil21 chakraborty]

So i was trying to make a webpage using spring framework and .jsp for the actual webpage i am using a requestmapper in the controller class to return the jsp page. But when i run the programme the controller is being called but the page is not displaying and there is a 404 error. Help please.

My pom.xml file for the dependencies and yes i have included the tomcat jasper 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<parent>
		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
		<version>3.2.3</version>
		<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
	</parent>
	<groupId>com.fist</groupId>
	<artifactId>webproject</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<packaging>war</packaging>
	<name>webproject</name>
	<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
	<properties>
		<java.version>21</java.version>
	</properties>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl</groupId>
			<artifactId>jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl-api</artifactId>
			<version>3.0.0</version>
		</dependency>
		<!-- <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
        </dependency> -->
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
			<artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
			<version>11.0.0-M17</version>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
			<scope>provided</scope>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>

	<build>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
				<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>

</project>

and here is the controller class 

package com.fist.webproject;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
@Controller
public class homepage {
    @GetMapping("/")
    public String home() {
        System.out.println("Homepage");
        return new String("index");
    }
    
}

and the porperties file here

spring.mvc.view.prefix=/webapp/web-inf/
spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp

and i have attached a ss for the folder structure and the terminal output when i called the hompage and u can see the hompage is getting called