The issue seem to be rectified by changing the Spring boot parent to 2.1.1.RELEASE instead of 2.1.3 … made the change based on the version comparisons listed on 1 of the camunda help pages.
But have a leading question … Now i do see the page where it asks for License on the Browser under System tab … but my understanding is that the same key can be loaded via dropping the license text key in the src/main/resource … if so, it hasnt worked so far ?