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:: Spring Boot :: (v1.4.3.RELEASE)
2017-01-09 01:23:15.384 INFO 9484 --- [ main] com.udemy.BackendninjaApplication : Starting BackendninjaApplication on I046LA0413 with PID 9484 (C:\Users\lvelasco\workspace\backendninja\target\classes started by lvelasco in C:\Users\lvelasco\workspace\backendninja)
2017-01-09 01:23:15.387 INFO 9484 --- [ main] com.udemy.BackendninjaApplication : No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default
2017-01-09 01:23:15.890 INFO 9484 --- [ main] ationConfigEmbeddedWebApplicationContext : Refreshing org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.AnnotationConfigEmbeddedWebApplicationContext@4988d8b8: startup date [Mon Jan 09 01:23:15 CST 2017]; root of context hierarchy
2017-01-09 01:23:18.036 INFO 9484 --- [ main] trationDelegate$BeanPostProcessorChecker : Bean 'org.springframework.transaction.annotation.ProxyTransactionManagementConfiguration' of type [class org.springframework.transaction.annotation.ProxyTransactionManagementConfiguration$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$50cfc6a] is not eligible for getting processed by all BeanPostProcessors (for example: not eligible for auto-proxying)
2017-01-09 01:23:18.466 WARN 9484 --- [ main] ationConfigEmbeddedWebApplicationContext : Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start embedded container; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'tomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/EmbeddedServletContainerAutoConfiguration$EmbeddedTomcat.class]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'serverProperties' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerPropertiesAutoConfiguration.class]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/HibernateException
2017-01-09 01:23:18.477 ERROR 9484 --- [ main] o.s.boot.SpringApplication : Application startup failed
org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start embedded container; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'tomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/EmbeddedServletContainerAutoConfiguration$EmbeddedTomcat.class]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'serverProperties' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/ServerPropertiesAutoConfiguration.class]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/hibernate/HibernateException
Fix: Update the parent version from 1.4.3 to 1.5.3 in pom and it worked!
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.3.RELEASE</version>
</parent>