Exception in monitor thread while connecting to server localhost:27017 while accessing MongoDB with Java

Question

I have the following exception when running Java app for MongoDB:

[localhost:27017] org.mongodb.driver.cluster : Exception in monitor thread while connecting to server localhost:27017 while accessing MongoDB with Java

Call stack is follows:

com.mongodb.MongoSocketOpenException: Exception opening socket
    at com.mongodb.connection.SocketStream.open(SocketStream.java:63) ~[mongodb-driver-core-3.0.4.jar:na]
    at com.mongodb.connection.InternalStreamConnection.open(InternalStreamConnection.java:114) ~[mongodb-driver-core-3.0.4.jar:na]
    at com.mongodb.connection.DefaultServerMonitor$ServerMonitorRunnable.run(DefaultServerMonitor.java:127) ~[mongodb-driver-core-3.0.4.jar:na]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_45]
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
    at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.waitForConnect(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
    at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(DualStackPlainSocketImpl.java:85) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:345) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:172) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
    at com.mongodb.connection.SocketStreamHelper.initialize(SocketStreamHelper.java:50) ~[mongodb-driver-core-3.0.4.jar:na]
    at com.mongodb.connection.SocketStream.open(SocketStream.java:58) ~[mongodb-driver-core-3.0.4.jar:na]
    ... 3 common frames omitted

Neither of these names belong to my application. Also I have NO MONGODB server on local host. I am using remote host and setting it later. An exception occurs BEFORE any of my statements concerning Mongo.

UPDATE

This is probably some Spring provided beans accessing Mongo. How to disable them?

My config contains following dependencies:

dependencies {
    compile('javax.media:jai_core:1.1.3')
    //compile('jai_core:1.1.3')

//  compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb')
    compile('org.mongodb:mongodb-driver:3.0.4')
    compile('org.mongodb:bson:3.0.4')

    compile('org.geotools:gt-api:14.2')
    compile('org.geotools:gt-shapefile:14.2')
    compile('org.geotools:gt-geometry:14.2')
    compile('org.geotools:gt-referencing:14.2')
    compile('org.geotools:gt-geojson:14.2')
    compile('org.geotools:gt-mongodb:14.2')

    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
    providedRuntime('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat')
    testCompile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test') 
}

i.e. I have removed org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb and was thinking will use Mongo myself...

UPDATE2

I found related question: How to disable spring-data-mongodb autoconfiguration in spring-boot

Answer 1

I was to add exclusion annotation to my main annotated class,

i.e. instead of

@SpringBootApplication

I should have

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude={MongoAutoConfiguration.class})