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

The problem might be due to version mismatch. Problem can be solve by specifying the dependency like this (since version is not mentioned, its auto managed)

    
        org.springframework.boot
        spring-boot-starter-data-jpa
    


    
        mysql
        mysql-connector-java
        runtime
    

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