Eclipse throws NullPointerException during Maven update

Question

I\'ve been fighting an internal Eclipse error for two days. I\'m running the latest Spring Tool Suite edition of Eclipse, and I\'ve attempting to import a collection of exis

Answer 1

I'm strongly sure that the problem is not related to the maven plugin; but if it is, i was wandering if you run a mvn eclipse:eclipse before importing the project into eclipse, if you do that and you are using maven 3, I had checked that maven plugin does not support maven 3 properly yet; so I encourage you to make a mvn eclipse:clean, then import the project as an existing project, and after that activate the maven plugin nature from eclipse. I hope it helps,

PS. it seems to be a know eclipse bug (https://www.google.com.uy/search?q=j2ee.componentcore.J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.getReferences(J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.java&oq=j2ee.componentcore.J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.getReferences(J2EEModuleVirtualComponent.java&aqs=chrome..69i57.128j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8); try downloading the last eclipse version; I'm using kepler at work, and I'm working in maven/spring projects and it works fine.

Good luck!