While I am running my Spring Boot application, I am getting the below error. I am using spring boot version 2.4.5

ERROR

2021-04-21 11:12:26.858 INFO 8064 --- [ main] o.s.boot.SpringApplication : Starting SpringApplication v2.4.5 using Java 15.0.2 on DESKTOP-MNKN1R7 with PID 8064 (C:\Users.m2\repository\org\springframework\boot\spring-boot\2.4.5\spring-boot-2.4.5.jar started by in C:\Users\Documents\demo)

2021-04-21 11:12:26.863 INFO 8064 --- [ main] o.s.boot.SpringApplication : No active profile set, falling back to default profiles: default

2021-04-21 11:12:26.928 ERROR 8064 --- [ main] o.s.boot.SpringApplication : Application run failed

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Sources must not be empty

at org.springframework.util.Assert.notEmpty(Assert.java:470) ~[spring-core-5.3.6.jar:5.3.6] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.prepareContext(SpringApplication.java:425) ~[spring-boot-2.4.5.jar:2.4.5] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:338) ~[spring-boot-2.4.5.jar:2.4.5] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1340) ~[spring-boot-2.4.5.jar:2.4.5] at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.main(SpringApplication.java:1356) ~[spring-boot-2.4.5.jar:2.4.5]

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>  <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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>  <parent>      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>      <version>2.4.5</version>      <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->  </parent>  <groupId>com.example</groupId>  <artifactId>demo</artifactId>  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>  <name>demo</name>  <description>Demo project for spring annotations</description>  <properties>      <java.version>1.8</java.version>  </properties>  <dependencies>      <dependency>          <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>          <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>      </dependency>        <dependency>          <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>          <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>          <scope>test</scope>      </dependency>            <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-core -->      <dependency>          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>          <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>          <version>5.3.6</version>      </dependency>      <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-context -->      <dependency>          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>          <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>          <version>5.3.6</version>      </dependency>      <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-web -->      <dependency>          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>          <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>          <version>5.3.6</version>      </dependency>      <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-beans -->      <dependency>          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>          <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>          <version>5.3.6</version>      </dependency>              </dependencies>    <build>      <plugins>          <plugin>              <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>              <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>          </plugin>      </plugins>  </build>    </project>  

DemoApplication.java

package com.example.demo;    import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;  import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;    @SpringBootApplication  public class DemoApplication {    public static void main(String[] args) {      SpringApplication.run(DemoApplication.class, args);  }    }  

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67190018/while-i-am-running-my-spring-boot-application-i-am-getting-the-below-error-i-a April 21, 2021 at 01:56PM