Run spring boot application error: Cannot instantiate interface org.springframework.context.ApplicationListener

Question

I have a spring project and try to make it use spring boot and to run at embadded tomcat following :

https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/

This is my Application

//@Configuration
//@EnableAspectJAutoProxy
@SpringBootApplication
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "gux.prome")
public class Application {

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

}

If I use maven command: mvn spring-boot:run, the project starts fine, but I need to debug , so I run this main method at InteliJ, exception occurs:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot instantiate interface org.springframework.context.ApplicationListener : org.springframework.boot.logging.ClasspathLoggingApplicationListener
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.createSpringFactoriesInstances(SpringApplication.java:414)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getSpringFactoriesInstances(SpringApplication.java:394)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getSpringFactoriesInstances(SpringApplication.java:385)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.initialize(SpringApplication.java:263)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.<init>(SpringApplication.java:237)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1191)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1180)
    at gux.prome.config.Application.main(Application.java:19)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:134)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/context/event/GenericApplicationListener
....

This is the pom:

<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>gux</groupId>
  <artifactId>prome-data</artifactId>


  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>prome-data Maven Webapp</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.3.RELEASE</version>
  </parent>

  <dependencies>

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

    <!-- guava -->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
      <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
      <version>18.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- end of guava -->


    <dependency>
      <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
      <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
      <version>2.9.2</version>
    </dependency>

  </dependencies>


  <properties>
    <java.version>1.7</java.version>
  </properties>


  <build>

    <finalName>prome-data</finalName>

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

      <!--<plugin>-->
      <!-- use java 7 -->
        <!--<artifactId> maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>-->
        <!--<version>3.1</version>-->
        <!--<configuration>-->
          <!--<source> 1.7</source>   -->
          <!--<target> 1.7</target>-->
        <!--</configuration>-->
      <!--</plugin>-->

    </plugins>
  </build>

  <!--<repositories>-->
    <!--<repository>-->
      <!--<id>spring-releases</id>-->
      <!--<url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>-->
    <!--</repository>-->
  <!--</repositories>-->

  <!--<pluginRepositories>-->
    <!--<pluginRepository>-->
      <!--<id>spring-releases</id>-->
      <!--<url>http://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>-->
    <!--</pluginRepository>-->
  <!--</pluginRepositories>-->


</project>

Did you check stackoverflow.com/questions/31489947/…

seenukarthi
– seenukarthi

2016-03-07 12:54:52 +00:00
Commented Mar 7, 2016 at 12:54 — seenukarthi
– seenukarthi, Commented Mar 7, 2016 at 12:54

Ahmed Nabil · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-23 10:28:57Z

32

This is a symptom of a version mismatch somewhere in your Spring dependencies, but not necessarily just Spring Boot and Spring itself. I had this between my Spring Boot parent:

<parent>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
  <version>1.3.5.RELEASE</version>
  <relativePath></relativePath>
</parent>

and my Spring Cloud Config dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-cloud-config-client</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

For some reason, I am not able to define the spring-cloud-config-client dependency without an explicit version declaration.

Updating both to the latest release version (1.3.5.RELEASE and 1.1.1.RELEASE) solved it.

Conclusion
Update your dependencies to the latest correct ones

edited Dec 23, 2018 at 10:28

Ahmed Nabil

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answered Jun 28, 2016 at 8:47

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2 Comments

Mital Pritmani Over a year ago

In my case, everything had same version. The only issue was, when the version was updated in pom, IDE still had cached the older version (Hint to this was same project was working for all my colleagues and not me). So when checked Module settings in IntelliJ, it showed me both the old and new versions. Had to remove the older one manually and the issue was resolved. :)

Vadym Tyemirov Over a year ago

I was importing other dependencies which had springframework. I had to add <exclusions> <exclusion> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>*</artifactId> </exclusion> </exclusions>

Rosberg Linhares · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-11 00:04:47Z

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For ones using Gradle, I solved this issue setting the version of the Spring Boot Gradle Plugin in my library and in my main project to the same value:

plugins {
    id("org.springframework.boot") version "2.2.2.RELEASE"
}

answered Jan 11, 2020 at 0:04

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petrucci · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-03 16:12:01Z

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i had the same error , i just changed the release version of the spring boot parent and now everything works right

answered Jul 3, 2017 at 16:12

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Abhishek Gurjar Over a year ago

Should be comment otherwise explain in detail.

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