Compiler error “archive for required library could not be read” - Spring Tool Suite

Question

I am starting to configure my development environment and I am using Spring Tool Suite 2.8.1 along with m2E 1.01.

As far as I can tell, since this is a Maven Project

Answer 1

I faced this problem. I had "Archive for required library spring-boot-devtools cannot be read or is not a valid ZIP file" and the solution was like that:- 1- determine the dependencies names that have problems(for may case it is spring-boot-devtools). 2- close eclipse. 3- search in your .m2 file on these dependencies(by name). 4- delete these folders. 5- reopen eclipse and let maven rebuild your dependencies again.