Unable to update maven configuration for the following project in spring tool suite

Question

I'm getting this error for my project that is working well in my other PC. I have imported Maven project and tried to update maven dependencies and it says....

Unable to update maven configuration for the following project and Updating Maven has encountered a problem could not find .classpath

I'm using STS 3.0.0. JRE 1.7 ..

Answer 1

May be you have a sourceDirectoy tag in your pom and where you specified 'src'
just remove it and it will do the job

Answer 2

Unable to update Maven configuration Could not calculate build plan:Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.7 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:jar:2.7

I was getting this error while performing Maven Force Update Snapshots however same project I was able to force update in different workspace on the same machine.

Issue was Workspace not pointing to correct maven installation and settings.xml.

GO to Window > Preference > Maven > Installation Point to to correct maven installation Window > Preference > Maven > User Settings Both global and user settings points to correct settings.xml file.

Answer 3

Remove Maven Nature of your project . And Add Maven Nature again.

Answer 4

I get the same problem when I imported a maven project to my workspace. I solved that issue by just closing the project and re-open it, then run the update maven configuration on it.