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

I had a similar issue and the problem was a broken maven repo jar file. In my case, the tomcat-embed-core jar file was broken. So I removed it from the maven repo and refreshed it to download again.