Spring Boot - repository field required a bean named 'entityManagerFactory' that could not be found

Question

I am in the process of developing a Spring Boot application and came across this error when starting the server. I am not sure if I am incorrectly defining any annotations o

Answer 1

spring-boot-starter-data-jpa will pull in all the hibernate dependencies you need. Using spring boot release 1.5.1, it will pull in hibernate-core:5.0.11 and hibernate-entitymanager:5.0.11. In addition to being unnecessary, your hibernate dependency versions are mismatched which is what I'm guessing is causing the error.

Try removing these dependencies from your pom.xml.

    org.hibernate
    hibernate-core
    4.1.4.Final


    org.hibernate
    hibernate-entitymanager
    5.2.3.Final