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

As echinelli indicated, this did turn out to be an Eclipse (or STS) bug, but installing the latest version isn't the fix, as I already had that version installed. I had installed STS based on Eclipse 4.x; when I uninstalled that and went to the 3.x version, the problem went away.