SpringBoot - Unable to Start embedded TomCat

Question

I have a Spring Boot application. It runs on 2 servers. The servers have the same configuration. One one of this it works... on the other i'm getting this exception when starting it

2016-04-26 08:24:17.633 ERROR [localhost-startStop-1]: Error starting Tomcat context: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException
2016-04-26 08:24:17.903 ERROR [main]: Application startup failed
org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start embedded container; nested exception is org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedServletContainerException: Unable to start embedded Tomcat
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.onRefresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:133)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:532)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:118)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:766)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.createAndRefreshContext(SpringApplication.java:361)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:307)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1191)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1180)
    at it.besmart.parkserver.StartServer.main(StartServer.java:13)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
    at org.springframework.boot.loader.MainMethodRunner.run(MainMethodRunner.java:54)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedServletContainerException: Unable to start embedded Tomcat
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.tomcat.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer.initialize(TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer.java:99)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.tomcat.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer.<init>(TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer.java:76)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.tomcat.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory.getTomcatEmbeddedServletContainer(TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory.java:457)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.tomcat.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory.getEmbeddedServletContainer(TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory.java:168)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.createEmbeddedServletContainer(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:160)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.onRefresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:130)
    ... 14 more

The stack trace continues for a lot of rows, mostly I get problems on auto wiring and injecting activities, with root cause

Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is org.hibernate.HibernateException: Access to DialectResolutionInfo cannot be null when 'hibernate.dialect' not set

But my db.properties file is:

jdbc.driverClassName = com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.url = jdbc:mysql://192.168.3.240:3306/SMARTPARK?useSSL=false
jdbc.username = parkuser
jdbc.password = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
hibernate.show_sql = false
hibernate.format_sql = false

The DB is running (second server connects to it regularly..) and all privileges to users and hosts are correct

This is my pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>it.besmart</groupId>
    <artifactId>eparkserver</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <name>eparkserver</name>
    <description>ePark server</description>

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.3.3.RELEASE</version>
        <relativePath /> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
        <start-class>it.besmart.parkserver.StartServer</start-class>
        <!-- 
        <tomcat.version>8.0.29</tomcat.version>
         -->
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-log4j</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.pi4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>pi4j-core</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <executable>true</executable>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>server-copy</id>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>run</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <configuration>
                            <target>
                                <echo message="Push to server /home/pi/park/" />
                                <scp trust="yes" todir="pi:sofia2011@192.168.3.67:/home/pi/park/">
                                    <fileset dir="${basedir}/target">
                                    </fileset>
                                </scp>
                            </target>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
                        <artifactId>ant-jsch</artifactId>
                        <version>1.9.6</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

All my hibernate settings are in HibernateConfiguration.class (i migrated this app from Spring MVC to Spring Boot)

@Configuration
@EnableTransactionManagement
@ComponentScan({ "it.besmart" })
@PropertySource(value = { "classpath:db.properties" })
public class HibernateConfiguration {

@Autowired
private Environment environment;

@Bean
public LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionfactory(){
    LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory = new LocalSessionFactoryBean();
    sessionFactory.setDataSource(dataSource());
    sessionFactory.setPackagesToScan(new String[] {"it.besmart.models"});
    sessionFactory.setHibernateProperties(hibernateProperties());
    return sessionFactory;
}

@Bean
public DataSource dataSource() {
    DriverManagerDataSource dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();
    dataSource.setDriverClassName(environment.getRequiredProperty("jdbc.driverClassName"));
    dataSource.setUrl(environment.getRequiredProperty("jdbc.url"));
    dataSource.setUsername(environment.getRequiredProperty("jdbc.username"));
    dataSource.setPassword(environment.getRequiredProperty("jdbc.password"));
    return dataSource;
}

private Properties hibernateProperties() {
    Properties properties = new Properties();
    properties.put("hibernate.dialect", environment.getRequiredProperty("hibernate.dialect"));
    properties.put("hibernate.show_sql", environment.getRequiredProperty("hibernate.show_sql"));
    properties.put("hibernate.format_sql", environment.getRequiredProperty("hibernate.format_sql"));
    return properties;        
}

@Bean
@Autowired
public HibernateTransactionManager transactionManager(SessionFactory s) {
   HibernateTransactionManager txManager = new HibernateTransactionManager();
   txManager.setSessionFactory(s);
   return txManager;
}
}

I don't know what is happening

Answer 1

Probably you can avoid this by changing your project sdk.

In my project I initially used java-11-openjdk-amd64 as my JDK and had the same issue.

After changing JDK into java-8-oracle it worked.

Answer 2

I had the same problem. Add this :

<dependency>
<groupId><groupId></groupId>
<artifactId><some dependency></artifactId>
<version><version></version>
<exclusions>
    <exclusion>
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
        <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
</exclusions>

Answer 3

On my case, the project was using Java 8 but in my configuration it was set to Java 11 . Go to project structure -> Project -> Project SDK and change the java version . I hope it helps.

Answer 4

1 ) When using Spring Boot you should not include the other Spring dependencies directly, but rely on Boot's own dependency management. When using the provided "starters" you can be sure that all needed libraries will be included in a matching version. Documentation : https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/#use-maven

2) The scheduling guide isn't a web app so you probably have some mouldy stuff in your pom.xml from the REST guide?

A "good" pom would have "spring-boot-starter-web" (for convenience) or else all the dependencies included in the starter listed individually. Just check that you have them. Also make sure you include an @EnableAutoConfiguration in your SpringApplication. Add the classes to run in an Object array to SpringApplication's run method : SpringApplication.run(new Object[]{Application.class, ScheduledTasks.class}, args);

Enjoy :)

Answer 5

Add a new file under src/main/resources with name application.properties

spring.datasource.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://192.168.3.240:3306/SMARTPARK?useSSL=false
spring.datasource.password=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
spring.datasource.username=parkuser
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
spring.jpa.show-sql=true

Remove HibernateConfiguration class & on your Main class put @EnableTransactionManagement annotation.

Answer 6

Probably It's about the servlet.jar confliction between 'starter-web' and embedded tomcat ,use the following instead.

 <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
 <version>2.0.4.RELEASE</version>

Answer 7

Suddenly i faced the same error, but for me it was the dependency below, just answering here to save others wasting time

spring-boot-devtools