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I have a executable jar file ("A") which has some controllers, services etc. This application depends on another project ("B") which I have added as a dependency in the application's pom file. Project B does not have any controllers. It just has some service methods.
Now, when I autowire some fields from project B in project A and then try to start project A, it exits immediately with a message
Disconnected from the target VM, address: '127.0.0.1:49447', transport: 'socket'
Process finished with exit code 1
However, when I remove the autowiring and then try to start, it starts normally. Why does this happen? Just a note that project A uses Spring 1.5, whereas project B is in Spring boot 1.3. Also, I have other projects which also use project B as a dependency, but they are working fine.
I've tried adding logs:
logging.level.root=WARN
logging.level.org.springframework.web=DEBUG
logging.level.org.hibernate=ERROR
But it doesn't print anything.