Spring Boot: Unable to start EmbeddedWebApplicationContext due to missing EmbeddedServletContainerFactory bean

Question

I am totally new to Spring and started to do the official guides from this site: https://spring.io/guides

I\'d like to do this guide: https://spring.io/guides/gs/sch

Answer 1

Adding the spring boot starter dependency fixed my error.

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-starter-web

This is required if you want to start the tomcat as an embeded server.