Failed to process import candidates for configuration class

Question

I\'ve a spring boot project that I can run successfully from within IntelliJ, but when I package an executable jar I can no longer run it. Here is the stack trace of the exc

Answer 1

I've also gotten the

Failed to process import candidates for configuration class [...]; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to read meta-data for class ...

error due to a typo in my spring.factories file. In this case the root exception was

class path resource [...] cannot be opened because it does not exist.

This is an important spot to check since it can't be validated at compile time.