error upgrading aspectj-maven-plugin v1.8

Question

Upgrading the maven plugin from 1.7 to 1.8 results in the following error message:

[ERROR] \'dependencies.dependency.systemPath\' for com.sun:tools:jar must specify

Answer 1

I had the same problem and I've just added in eclipse.ini the path to the JDK8.
In my case:

-vm
C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_60\bin\javaw.exe

(must be before -vmargs)