Spring application start error: sources must not b

Question

I'm following a Spring tutorial, and when I tried to start the spring application I got the following error:

2016-01-20 23:18:15.907 INFO 5271 --- [ main] o.s.boot.SpringApplication : Starting SpringApplication v1.3.1.RELEASE on ...

2016-01-20 23:18:15.911 INFO 5271 --- [ main] o.s.boot.SpringApplication : No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default

2016-01-20 23:18:15.918 ERROR 5271 --- [ main] o.s.boot.SpringApplication : Application startup failed java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Sources must not be empty at org.springframework.util.Assert.notEmpty(Assert.java:276) ~[spring-core-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.doRun(SpringApplication.java:352) [spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:305) [spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1124) [spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.main(SpringApplication.java:1140) [spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE]

What is this "Sources must not be empty" error?

I am using an Eclipse - Maven project for this tutorial project and I have updated the project. I have also cleaned and rebuilt but I still got this error.

Answer 1

you must add at least one main config class as a source (see attached screenshots).

wrong:

right:

Answer 2

add scanBasePackages="com.login" at main class thats all your code will work.

package com.login.example.LoginExample;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication(scanBasePackages="com.login")

public class LoginExampleApplication {

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

Answer 3

Had the same issue recently, turned out I was running the wrong java class. I went to class where I have my @SpringBootApplication and right click -> run as java application. Maybe that will help someone as silly as me.

Answer 4

It turns out that I did not set the main class correctly in Eclipse - Debug, and Run configuration. I set org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication as the main class. The Main class should be pointing to my main class.