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Chris McClellan
Chris McClellan
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Posted by Chris McClellan
Chris McClellan
3,935 Points

During runtime, getting an error message "Application Failed to Start."

For the "Introducing Spring Data REST" section of the course, "Build a REST API in Spring":

The application is refusing to start giving the error message "Application Failed to Start." Its recommendation is to "define a bean name 'entityManagerFactory' in my configuration."

Is this something that I need to do or is this possibly a configuration error in my build.gradle file?

(Based on other videos, it sounds like "buildscript" is no longer used, so I guessed on parts of the configurations).

Here is my build.gradle file:

plugins { id 'java' id 'org.springframework.boot' version '1.4.3.RELEASE' }

group 'com.teamtreehouse' version '1.0-SNAPSHOT' sourceCompatibility = 1.8

repositories { mavenCentral() }

dependencies { compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-rest' compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa' compile 'org.springframework.data:spring-data-rest-hal-browser' compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security' compile 'com.h2database:h2' }

Thanks!!