Springboot application failing to start with error: Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean

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I have the following Main code in my SpringBoot application


package com.oc.springsample;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;

public class Start {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Start.class, args);
    }

}

When I start this I am getting the following error


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2019-07-02 15:45:25.344  INFO 58934 --- [           main] com.oc.springsample.Start                : Starting Start on MacBook-Pro-6.local with PID 58934 (/springsample/target/classes started by foo in /springsample)
2019-07-02 15:45:25.346  INFO 58934 --- [           main] com.oc.springsample.Start                : No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default
2019-07-02 15:45:25.462  WARN 58934 --- [           main] ConfigServletWebServerApplicationContext : Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start web server; nested exception is org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean.
2019-07-02 15:45:25.471 ERROR 58934 --- [           main] o.s.boot.SpringApplication               : Application run failed

org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start web server; nested exception is org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean.
	at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.onRefresh(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:155) ~[spring-boot-2.1.6.RELEASE.jar:2.1.6.RELEASE]
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:543) ~[spring-context-5.1.8.RELEASE.jar:5.1.8.RELEASE]
	at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.refresh(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:140) ~[spring-boot-2.1.6.RELEASE.jar:2.1.6.RELEASE]
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:742) [spring-boot-2.1.6.RELEASE.jar:2.1.6.RELEASE]
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:389) [spring-boot-2.1.6.RELEASE.jar:2.1.6.RELEASE]
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:311) [spring-boot-2.1.6.RELEASE.jar:2.1.6.RELEASE]
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1213) [spring-boot-2.1.6.RELEASE.jar:2.1.6.RELEASE]
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1202) [spring-boot-2.1.6.RELEASE.jar:2.1.6.RELEASE]
	at com.oc.springsample.Start.main(Start.java:7) [classes/:na]
Caused by: org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean.
	at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.getWebServerFactory(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:202) ~[spring-boot-2.1.6.RELEASE.jar:2.1.6.RELEASE]
	at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.createWebServer(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:178) ~[spring-boot-2.1.6.RELEASE.jar:2.1.6.RELEASE]
	at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.onRefresh(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:152) ~[spring-boot-2.1.6.RELEASE.jar:2.1.6.RELEASE]
	... 8 common frames omitted

1 Answer

5 years ago by

You are missing the @SpringBootApplication annotation on your Start class which starts your SpringBoot application.
Change your code to following

package com.oc.springsample;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class Start {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Start.class, args);
    }

}
5 years ago by Karthik Divi