Spring Boot application in eclipse, the Tomcat connector configured to listen on port XXXX failed to start

Question

I\'m developing a REST API using Spring Framework.

First I wasn\'t able to run my application because of the same problem. The port 8080 on my computer is busy. Then I

Answer 1

There are two options to handle/avoid this situation.

1. Before re-running the application just terminate the previous connection.

• Open the console --> right click --> terminate all.

2. If you forgot to perform action mention on step 1 then

• Figure out the port used by your application, you could see it the stack trace in the console window
• Figure out the process id associated to port by executing netstat -aon command in cmd
• Kill that process and re-run the application.