Before coming to the problem let me explain what I did that has landed me in the problem.
i was facing same problem in Eclipse Mars. I downloaded the jars from [https://oss.jfrog.org/webapp/#/artifacts/browse/tree/General/repo/org/ethereum/ethereumj-core/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT][1] and replaced it in the directory.
I got error while adding ethereum.jar using pom.xml at C:\Users{machineName}.m2\repository\org\ethereum\ethereumj-core\1.0.0-SNAPSHOT\ethereum-core-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar , i added the downloaded jar(ethereum-core-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar) here and the problem was solved.