Tomcat connector in failed state (5 of 285 technotes for 2015)

While running the basic web application using Spring Boot and embedded Tomcat, I am getting the error Tomcat Connector in failed state. 

The problem is resolved once the default port is changed from 8080 to 8181

java -jar target/gs-serving-web-content-0.1.0.jar –server.port=8181

Solution found from:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20735205/launching-spring-application-address-already-in-use