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

On the console, looking at the topmost right side of the dialog you should see a red button kinda like a buzzer. To stop the spring boot application properly you just ran, go ahead and hit this particular "red" button and your problem is solved. Hope this helps!