title: Spring Boot Application:- The import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication cannot be resolved
body: <p>I'm beginner for Spring-boot;refering some tutorials I have set up a spring boot project using the Spring Initializer. I have tried to get rid of this issue by downloading dependencies again and even created new projects several times.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using Eclipse neon IDE and I find error on imports import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.</p>
  
  <p>I have removed repositories too many times so that jars will auto downloaded by itself when I refresh\clean the project but problem still persists.</p>
  
  <p>DemoApplication.java</p>
  
  <pre><code>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);
    }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>below is my pom.xml</p>
  
  <p>pom.xml</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;parent&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;2.1.3.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;relativePath /&gt; &lt;!-- lookup parent from repository --&gt;
  &lt;/parent&gt;
  
  &lt;groupId&gt;com.example&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;demo&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;name&gt;demo&lt;/name&gt;
  &lt;description&gt;Demo project for Spring Boot&lt;/description&gt;
  
  &lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;maven.compiler.source&gt;1.8&lt;/maven.compiler.source&gt;
      &lt;maven.compiler.target&gt;1.8&lt;/maven.compiler.target&gt;
      &lt;start-class&gt;com.example.demo.DemoApplication&lt;/start-class&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&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-autoconfigure&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-tomcat&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&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>