Spring Boot application can't resolve the org.springframework.boot package

Question

I have set up a spring boot project using the Spring Initializer, I tried several times to create a new project or play with the dependencies, everything seems to be in plac

Answer 1

I had the same problem when I was trying to work with a basic spring boot app. I tried to use the latest spring-boot version from the official spring-boot site.

As on today, the latest version is 1.5.4.RELEASE. But I keep getting compilation issues on my eclipse IDE irrespective of multiple cleanups to the project. I lowered the version of spring-boot to 1.5.3.RELEASE and it simply worked !! Some of my earlier projects were using the old version which drove me to try this option.