Unable to start spring boot server

Question

I am new to spring boot and when I try to start my server , I get the following Exception. I understand that this has something to do with dependency conflict, but still una

Answer 1

Spring Boot supports Log4j 2 for logging configuration if it is on the classpath. If you use the starters for assembling dependencies, you have to exclude Logback and then include log4j 2 instead.