title: Spring Boot Application is failing to start
body: <p>A simple spring boot application is failing to start by giving the below error, I'm unable to understand what is going on. I have created with spring starter spring boot version 1.5.6 release starting the newly created project giving me this error before two days it was working.</p>
  
  <pre><code>"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_45\bin\java" -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,
  address=127.0.0.1:50709,suspend=y,server=n org.sounds.bvs.SoundsApplication 
  --spring.output.ansi.enabled=always
  Connected to the target VM, address: '127.0.0.1:50709', transport: 'socket'
  SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
  SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
  SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
  
  
  Process finished with exit code 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>pom.xml:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"&gt;
      &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
  
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.sounds&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;SoundsApplication&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;packaging&gt;jar&lt;/packaging&gt;
  
  &lt;name&gt;SoundsApplication&lt;/name&gt;
  &lt;description&gt;Background Verification Project in Spring Boot&lt;/description&gt;
  
  &lt;parent&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;1.5.6.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;relativePath/&gt; &lt;!-- lookup parent from repository --&gt;
  &lt;/parent&gt;
  
  &lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;
      &lt;project.reporting.outputEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.reporting.outputEncoding&gt;
      &lt;java.version&gt;1.8&lt;/java.version&gt;
  &lt;/properties&gt;
  
  &lt;dependencies&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-web&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-test&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  
  &lt;build&gt;
      &lt;plugins&gt;
          &lt;plugin&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;/plugin&gt;
      &lt;/plugins&gt;
  &lt;/build&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>