Springboot app not running in port through IntelliJ

Question

I am new to IntelliJ (CE 2022.2, MacOS), have been an eclipse user for past 17 years.

I have a simple spring boot application which imported in IntelliJ.

Now i run the application and console shows

Started ExternalserviceApplication in 1.931 seconds (JVM running for 2.607)

Don't have the port property in application.properties so the app should run in 8080.

But i can't access the application on 8080 and active ports display in mac terminal does not show the process running on 8080.

Same application has been running perfectly through Eclipse on 8080.

I might be missing something simple. Do i have to enable something in IntelliJ?

UPDATE

In some posts i saw the issue could be with the maven dependencies.

So i paste my maven dependencies below.

  <?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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.7.3</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>org.saurav</groupId>
    <artifactId>externalservice</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <name>externalservice</name>
    <description>Service responsible for making external calls</description>
    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <!-- <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
            <artifactId>kafka-streams</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.kafka</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-kafka</artifactId>
        </dependency> -->

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <!-- <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.kafka</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-kafka-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency> -->
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

Best Regards,

Saurav

Answer 1

Resolved the issue.

It seems IntelliJ does not provide tomcat in the classpath.

So in order to do this we need to modify options in the run configuration and enable " Add dependecies with "provided" scope in the classpath.

I got the hint from this SO post.

Unable to start spring-boot application in IntelliJ Idea