ApplicationContextException: Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean

Question

I have written a spring batch application using Spring boot. When I am trying to run that application using command line and classpath on my local system it is running fine. However, when I tried to run it on linux server it is giving me following exception

Unable to start web server; nested exception is
org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: 
Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean.

Below is the way I am running it:

java -cp jarFileName.jar; lib\* -Dlogging.level.org.springframework=DEBUG -Dspring.profiles.active=dev -Dspring.batch.job.names=abcBatchJob com.aa.bb.StartSpringBatch > somelogs.log

Possible duplicate of [Spring Boot: Unable to start EmbeddedWebApplicationContext due to missing EmbeddedServletContainerFactory bean](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21783391/spring-boot-unable-to-start-embeddedwebapplicationcontext-due-to-missing-embedd) — Mehraj Malik, May 08 '18 at 10:47

GolamMazid Sajib · Answer 1 · 2023-07-27T07:07:40.607

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Case 1:

@SpringBootApplication annotation missing in your spring boot starter class.

Case 2:

For non-web applications, disable web application type in the properties file.

In application.properties:

spring.main.web-application-type=none

If you use application.yml then add:

  spring:
    main:
      web-application-type: none

For web applications, extends *SpringBootServletInitializer* in the main class.

@SpringBootApplication
public class YourAppliationName extends SpringBootServletInitializer{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(YourAppliationName.class, args);
    }
}

Case 3:

If you use spring-boot-starter-webflux then also add spring-boot-starter-web as dependency.

Case 4:

if you use netty then use below properties:

spring.main.web-application-type=reactive

or yml:

spring:
    main:
      web-application-type: reactive

edited Jul 27 '23 at 07:07

answered May 08 '18 at 11:21

GolamMazid Sajib

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Thanks for replying, however my application is not a web application – Vijayant Bhatia May 09 '18 at 10:16
@VijayantBhatia did you figure this out? I'm running a non web application in spring boot and getting the same error. – fIwJlxSzApHEZIl Jun 04 '18 at 18:43
What about case 4. It is typically installed on Tomcat but trying to run it locally without using a tomcat server? I tried jetty but it didn't seem to help and I would need to create profiles. – JGleason May 12 '21 at 14:49
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I had to change the `web-application-type: reactive` to make it work on NETTY. – prayagupa Apr 20 '23 at 00:41
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Thanks @prayagupa , you saved my day. – Taeho Jeong Jul 26 '23 at 23:45

score 41 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 23 '19 at 20:12

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Probably you missing @SpringBootApplication in your spring boot starter class.

@SpringBootApplication
public class LoginSecurityAppApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(LoginSecurityAppApplication.class, args);
    }

}

edited Oct 23 '19 at 20:12

observer

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answered Feb 07 '19 at 10:52

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score 39 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 26 '18 at 04:19

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The solution is:

I explicitly set the below property to none in application.yml file.

spring:
  main:
    web-application-type: none

edited Jul 26 '18 at 04:19

Emdadul Sawon

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answered May 09 '18 at 10:17

Vijayant Bhatia

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score 22 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 17 '20 at 20:29

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My solution had to do with a bad dependency. I had:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>

In my pom and I had to comment out the exclusion to get it working. It must look for this tomcat package for some reason.

answered Feb 17 '20 at 20:29

Spencer Sutton

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This is exactly what the issue is in most of the cases. Tomcat is excluded so that the application can run on external servers and if the application is not extending SpringBootServletInitializer then this will occur. – KnockingHeads Apr 12 '21 at 07:43

score 14 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 30 '20 at 07:38

In my case the issue resolved on commenting the tomcat dependencies exclusion from spring-boot-starte-web

     <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        <!-- <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions> -->
    </dependency>

Adrian · Answer 6 · 2019-11-19T13:09:06.287

You probably use this in your project:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-webflux</artifactId>
</dependency>

in which case you'll have to also add:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>

and the magic happens :)

PS: that's because Spring will use by default web-MVC instead of web-flux when both are available

score 11 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 22 '20 at 08:42

Adding following bean worked for me.

    @Bean
    public ServletWebServerFactory servletWebServerFactory() {
        return new TomcatServletWebServerFactory();
    }

I was running non web spring application using SpringApplication.run(MyApplication.class, args); without @SpringBootApplication annotation.

Ravindranath Akila · Answer 8 · 2020-01-20T13:28:25.723

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Annotate class public static void main with, for example: @SpringBootApplication

edited Jan 20 '20 at 13:28

answered Jun 26 '19 at 08:45

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score 5 · Answer 9 · answered Feb 11 '22 at 04:53

To convert an Spring boot wen application to standalone:

Either configure application.properties:

spring.main.web-application-type=none

Or Update application context with NONE web context.

ApplicationContext ctx = new SpringApplicationBuilder(MigrationRunner.class)
                .web(WebApplicationType.NONE).run(args);

Using application context, you can get your beans:

myBean bean = (MyBean) ctx.getBean("myBean", MyBean.class); bean.call_a_method(..);

score 3 · Answer 10 · answered Jan 02 '19 at 20:50

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I had this problem during migration to Spring Boot. I've found a advice to remove dependencies and it helped. So, I removed dependency for jsp-api Project had. Also, servlet-api dependency has to be removed as well.

compileOnly group: 'javax.servlet.jsp', name: 'jsp-api', version: '2.2'

answered Jan 02 '19 at 20:50

Evgeniy

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I got this issue with compile group: 'javax.servlet', name: 'javax.servlet-api', version:'4.0.1' – mger1979 May 21 '19 at 20:54
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Like @mger1979 my problem was using group: 'javax.servlet', name: 'javax.servlet-api', version:'3.1.0' with spring-boot:2.1.8.RELEASE so I updated to 'javax.servlet' to version '4.0.1' and now everything is running ok, Thanks. – hermeslm Sep 15 '19 at 21:39

score 3 · Answer 11 · answered Apr 21 '20 at 11:12

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As for me, I removed the provided scope in tomcat dependency.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
  <scope>provided</scope> // remove this scope
</dependency>

answered Apr 21 '20 at 11:12

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score 3 · Answer 12 · answered Oct 11 '20 at 15:57

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I did right click on my project in IntelliJ IDEA then Maven -> Reload project, problem solved.

answered Oct 11 '20 at 15:57

Bhanu Dhulipudi

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score 3 · Answer 13 · answered Oct 30 '20 at 01:44

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In case you're using IntelliJ and this is happening to you (like it did to my noob-self), ensure the Run setting has Spring Boot Application and NOT plain Application.

answered Oct 30 '20 at 01:44

Mike

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score 3 · Answer 14 · answered May 28 '21 at 11:12

I was getting same error while using tomcat-jasper newer version

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat-jasper</artifactId>
    <version>10.0.6</version>
</dependency>

I replaced with the stable older version it worked fine for me.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat-jasper</artifactId>
    <version>9.0.46</version>
</dependency>

Anurag · Answer 15 · 2020-08-09T16:35:56.657

Apart from the possible solutions in other answers, it is also possible that somehow Maven dependency corruption has occurred on your machine. I was facing the same error on trying to run my (Web) Spring boot application, and it got resolved by running the following -

mvn dependency:purge-local-repository -DreResolve=true

followed by

mvn package

I came onto this solution looking into another issue where Eclipse wouldn't let me run the main application class from the IDE, due to a different error, similar to one on this SO thread -> The type org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

mvn dependency:purge-local-repository -DreResolve=true; mvn clean package; It helped me. — skyho, Aug 25 '21 at 16:53

score 2 · Answer 16 · answered Sep 21 '20 at 01:36

Similar to the solution of making sure org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat was installed, I was missing org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server from my build.gradle

org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web needs a server be it Tomcat, Jetty or something else - it will compile but not run without one.

score 2 · Answer 17 · answered May 09 '21 at 15:15

I wanted to run the WAR type spring boot application, and when I was trying to run the app as spring boot application I was getting above error. So declaring the web application type in application.properties has worked for me. spring.main.web-application-type=none

Possible web application type:

NONE - the application should not run as a web application and should not start an embedded web server.
REACTIVE - the application should run as a reactive web application and should start an embedded reactive web server.
SERVLET - the application should run as a servlet-based web application and should start an embedded servlet web server.

score 2 · Answer 18 · answered Dec 09 '21 at 15:38

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Missing dependency could be cause of this issue

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>

answered Dec 09 '21 at 15:38

SMilos

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score 2 · Answer 19 · answered Apr 24 '23 at 11:38

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in my case it was annotation @SpringBootApplication missing in main

answered Apr 24 '23 at 11:38

Tomas Šatas

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score 1 · Answer 20 · answered Nov 28 '19 at 09:37

In my case, the problem was I didn't had a Tomcat server separately installed in my eclipse. I assumed my Springboot will start the server automatically within itself.

Since my main class extends SpringBootServletInitializer and override configure method, I definitely need a Tomcat server installed in my IDE.

To install, first download Apachce Tomcat (version 9 in my case) and create server using Servers tab.

After installation, run the main class on server.

Run As -> Run on Server

score 1 · Answer 21 · answered Apr 30 '20 at 12:08

I was trying to create a web application with spring boot and I got the same error. After inspecting I found that I was missing a dependency. So, be sure to add following dependency to your pom.xml file.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

Evandro Coan · Answer 22 · 2020-07-18T02:26:34.003

In my case, I was using an TOMCAT 8 and updating to TOMCAT 9 fixed it:

  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>spring-boot-app</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-app</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>war</packaging>

  <parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.1.RELEASE</version>
    <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
  </parent>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
      <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.1</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>java</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
        <configuration>
          <mainClass>com.example.Application</mainClass>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

  <properties>
    <tomcat.version>9.0.37</tomcat.version>
  </properties>

Related issues:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues?q=missing+ServletWebServerFactory+bean
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/22013 - Spring Boot app as a module
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/19141 - Application fails to load when main class extends a base class annotated with @SpringBootApplication when spring-boot-starter-web is included as a dependency

score 0 · Answer 23 · edited Oct 23 '19 at 20:11

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Upgrading spring-boot-starter-parent in pom.xml to the latest version fixed it for me.

edited Oct 23 '19 at 20:11

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answered Jun 13 '18 at 17:30

Michael

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can you share exactly what you added? which version? – shak Oct 05 '18 at 16:08
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Based on the time I posted this, it looks like it was 2.0.2.RELEASE. 2.0.3 got released the next day. – Michael Oct 05 '18 at 20:54

score 0 · Answer 24 · answered Feb 23 '19 at 12:52

I encountered this problem when attempint to run my web application as a fat jar rather than from within my IDE (IntelliJ).

This is what worked for me. Simply adding a default profile to the application.properties file.

spring.profiles.active=default

You don't have to use default if you have already set up other specific profiles (dev/test/prod). But if you haven't this is necessary to run the application as a fat jar.

score 0 · Answer 25 · answered Feb 19 '21 at 13:49

My problem was the same as that in the original question, only that I was running via Eclipse and not cmd. Tried all the solutions listed, but didn't work. The final working solution for me, however, was while running via cmd (or can be run similarly via Eclipse). Used a modified command appended with spring config from cmd:

start java -Xms512m -Xmx1024m <and the usual parameters as needed, like PrintGC etc> -Dspring.config.location=<propertiesfiles> -jar <jar>

I guess my issue was the spring configurations not being loaded correctly.

score 0 · Answer 26 · answered Mar 18 '22 at 16:49

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In my case, the gretty plugin (3.0.6) was still active. Gretty somehow influences the embedded tomcat dependency. Removing gretty fixed the error

answered Mar 18 '22 at 16:49

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score 0 · Answer 27 · answered Dec 26 '22 at 08:54

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Just comment the provided like below

answered Dec 26 '22 at 08:54

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score 0 · Answer 28 · answered Mar 14 '23 at 10:52

I had the same problem, root cause was:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.mock-server</groupId>
  <artifactId>mockserver-netty</artifactId>
  <version>5.15.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.mock-server</groupId>
  <artifactId>mockserver-client-java</artifactId>
  <version>5.15.0</version>
</dependency>

I have to define their scope as test, like <scope>test</scope>

score 0 · Answer 29 · answered May 16 '23 at 07:06

In my case, even though I had @SpringBootApplication in my main class... for some strange reason, the annotation was missing in the corresponding class in the 'target' folder. I wasted hours looking into it.

Running a Maven clean and rebuilding the app fixed the issue and the @SpringBootApplication annotation magically appeared in the corresponding main class in the target folder.

All working now, but very strange this happened in the first place.

score 0 · Answer 30 · answered Jul 05 '23 at 00:21

You just need to autowire any implementation of ServletWebServerFactory interface. For example as already suggested by @Kapil it can be TomcatServletWebServerFactory or any other ones available in your app. Other possible option would be JettyServletWebServerFactory.

@Bean
public ServletWebServerFactory servletWebServerFactory() {
    return new JettyServletWebServerFactory();
}

ApplicationContextException: Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean

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