title: Localhost refused to connect for Spring Boot Application Using Eclipse
body: <pre><code> pom.xml file:
  
  
  &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;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;parent&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;2.1.4.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/parent&gt;
  
  
  
  
  
      &lt;properties&gt;
          &lt;java.version&gt;1.8&lt;/java.version&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-data-jpa&lt;/artifactId&gt; 
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-data-rest&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&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-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;
  
  
  
  
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>java file 1: </p>
  
  <pre><code>package springWaterProj;
  
  
  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>java file 2: </p>
  
  <pre><code>package springWaterProj;
  
  
  
  import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
  import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
  
  
  @RestController
  public class HelloController {
  
  
      @RequestMapping("/hello")
      public String sayHi() {
          return "hi"; 
      }
  }
  </code></pre>