Why does Spring Boot web app close immediately after starting?

Question

Using STS, if I import the \"Rest Service\" Getting Started project using the latest Spring Boot and choose \"Run As Spring Boot App\", it starts up, t

Answer 1

I had this same issue. To make it work I had to adjust the pom.xml and comment-out the 'provided' scope for spring-boot-starter-tomcat artifact and update the dependencies.

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-starter-tomcat
    

Now it starts up as expected! Thanks to some of the other answers that put me on the right track.