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

We have had the same issue in eclipse or intellij. After trying many alternative solutions, I found simple solution - add this config to your application.properties: spring.main.web-application-type=none