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

In case of VSCode, follow the below steps:

1. Navigate to the respective folder that contains the corrupted jar
2. Delete just the jar
3. mvn clean
4. mvn compile

That worked for me.