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At times an application do not stop properly and keep running in background, occupying  port. Step 1: Identify the TCP process id binding to a specific port $>netstat -ano | find "8080" TCP 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 28268 TCP [::]:8080 [::]:0 LISTENING 28268 Step 2: Kill the process $>taskkill /F /PID 28268

If you are creating a Spring Boot application and see the following error stack . ____ _ __ _ _ /\\ / ___'_ __ _ _(_)_ __ __ _ \ \ \ \ ( ( )\___ | '_ | '_| | '_ \/ _` | \ \ \ \ \\/ ___)| |_)| | | | | || (_| | ) ) ) ) ' |____| .__|_| |_|_| |_\__, | / / / / =========|_|==============|___/=/_/_/_/ :: Spring Boot :: (v2.2.0.RELEASE) 2020-06-27 19:30:32.786 INFO 35224 --- [ main] SchoolApplication : Starting SchoolApplication on LTUS76179 with PID 35224 (C:\personal\eclipse-workspace\apievolution\target\classes started by 381548 in C:\personal\eclipse-workspace\apievolution) 2020-06-27 19:30:32.796 INFO 35224 --- [ main] SchoolApplication : No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default 2020-06-27 19:30:32.964 WARN 35224 --- [ main] ionWarningsApplicationContextInitializer : ** WARNING ** : Your ApplicationContext is unli...