Project build error: 'dependencies.dependency.version' for org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-eureka-server:jar is missing

Question

I am developing a code from https://www.dineshonjava.com/microservices-with-spring-boot/. When I update the spring-boot-starter-parent from 1.5.4.RELEASE to 2

Answer 1

There are a couple of things here. I was trying to create the Eureka server and I faced a couple of problems.

First things

If you are using spring-cloud-starter-eureka-server then change it to spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-server.

The link will give the details of the changes. https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-cloud/wiki/Spring-Cloud-Edgware-Release-Notes

I recently created the starter project from https://start.spring.io/ and it has the latest changes in pom.xml

This is how it looks like

 org.springframework.cloud
 spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-client



 org.springframework.cloud
 spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-server

You need to make sure that the eureka server dependency version is correct. You can make sure by adding Greenwich.RELEASE in properties tag and ${spring-cloud.version} in dependencyManagement's version tag

If you do not see the tag then add the whole dependency in your pom.xml

    1.8
     Greenwich.RELEASE
 

	
		
			
				org.springframework.cloud
				spring-cloud-dependencies
				${spring-cloud.version}
				pom
				import
			
		
	

I hope it helps.