Spring-boot(maven) actuator,devtools not working - maven

Question

I'm a newbie to spring-boot. Trying to create a simple web application using spring-boot maven. Basic static page display using dependency spring-boot-starter-web worked fine. When I included spring-boot-devtools and spring-boot-starter-actuator in pom.xml it is giving build error Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
I tried including spring-webmvc dependency in pom file, still the result is same.
<?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 http://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>2.1.1.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>com.test</groupId>
<artifactId>jspTest</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>jspTest</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</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-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin
</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
I downloaded this project from spring.io (SPRING INITIALIZR website). Build project is getting failed.

Answer 1

<scope>runtime</scope> of spring-boot-devtools suppose not to be runtime. In fact according to the doc -
Developer tools are automatically disabled when running a fully
packaged application. If your application is launched from java -jar
or if it is started from a special classloader, then it is considered
a “production application”. Flagging the dependency as optional in
Maven or using a customdevelopmentOnly configuration in Gradle (as
shown above) is a best practice that prevents devtools from being
transitively applied to other modules that use your project.
So, change the dependency as below -
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>

Answer 2

you can update your pom.xml and change the version number to any previous stable version.It worked for me.
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>**xyz_previous_.RELEASE**</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->