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

For those who are experiencing same problem after controlling there is no suspicious java process which allocate the port, there is no red square on eclipse to terminate any process and also there is no change even you try different port for your spring boot application.

might sound stupid but; restarting eclipse works. :)