I started a new Spring boot project, I want to change the port number and I read that I have to modify the /resource/application.properties to do so.
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You will need to add the application.properties file in your classpath.
If you are using Maven or Gradle, you can just put the file under src/main/resources.
If you are not using Maven or any other build tools, put that under your src folder and you should be fine.
Then you can just add an entry server.port = xxxx in the properties file.