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

this issue can be resolved using 2 ways:

1. Kill application running on 8080

netstat -ao | find "8080"

Taskkill /PID 1342 /F

2. change spring server port in application.properties file

server.port=8081