Error starting spring boot "An attempt was made to call a method that does not exist"

You should not specify the version of Hibernate to use as the spring-boot-starter-data-jpa dependency takes care of that.

If you run mvn dependency:tree | grep hibernate, you see that 2 versions of hibernate are included:

16:20 $ mvn dependency:tree | grep hibernate
[INFO] |  |  \- org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator:jar:6.0.17.Final:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.hibernate:hibernate-core:jar:5.4.6.Final:compile
[INFO] +- org.hibernate.orm:hibernate-core:jar:6.0.0.Alpha2:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.hibernate.common:hibernate-commons-annotations:jar:5.1.0.Final:compile
[INFO] +- org.hibernate:hibernate-entitymanager:jar:5.4.8.Final:compile

It seems the group id changed from org.hibernate to org.hibernate.orm, that is why Maven does not notice it is the same library.

Also the hibernate-entitymanager dependency can be removed.

Delete your .m2 folder in c:\users\.m2 and then run maven install it will fix your classpath problem