title: Spring-shell along with spring-boot NullPointerException
body: <p>I am trying to build a simple app using spring boot and spring shell . My pom.xml is like this:
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  <p>I am getting the below error when trying to connect to the shell using putty</p>
  
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  <p>I am not able to get any pointers.</p>
  
  <p>Putty I downloaded for windows. Trying connecting using user as username, password shown in console, port 2000. Logs says authentication successful. Still a NullPointerException
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  <p>I am using jdk 1.8 only. Not jre.</p>