Start a SringBoot Stater project from Eighter Eclipse or STS. Spring Starter Project fill your Artifact and Group accordingly and click “ Next ”. then select Spring Web and Spring Data JPA. POM.xml DemoApplication.java Project Structure Controller class Entity class application.properties Then run it . Note: use spring.datasource.driver-class-name= oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver insist of spring.datasource.driver-class-name=oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver Do not use any extra dependency of ojdbc .jar when you are using it from local references.