javax.net.ssl.SSLException MESSAGE: closing inbound before receiving peer's close_notify
The SSL connection to the database is failing, try changing your datasource URL to:
so Either you change the URL in config file like for example
in Tomcat in server.xml add "useSSL=false" in the end of the complete url as below
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/employee_database?useSSL=false
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ADD the below line to your mysql database config file
ssl=0