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

Find the process and terminate it. On Windows do a Control+Alt+Delete and then find the "Java(TM) Platform SE Binary" process under the Processes Tab. For example:

On Ubuntu, you can use "ps aux | grep java" to find the process and "kill -9 PID_NUMBER" to kill the process.

OR

If you're using a Spring boot application, go to application.properties and add this:

server.port = 8081