Spring Boot with it’s maven starter dependencies is incredibly helpful to get a simple Spring Boot app up and running in no time, but occasionally you run into weird errors in Eclipse like:
The project was not built since its build path is incomplete. Cannot find the class file for org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext. Fix the build path then try building this project
Or doing a mvn compile from your shell, something like:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] error reading /Users/kev/.m2/repository/org/apache/tomcat/embed/tomcat-embed-core/8.5.11/tomcat-embed-core-8.5.11.jar; invalid LOC header (bad signature)
Assuming you’re already using the Spring Boot Starter Web dependency:
<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId> </dependency>
.. errors about Classes not found or errors reading .jars (‘invalid LOC header’) could be related to jars in your local .m2 repo being corrupt.
This is pretty easy to correct if you go into your ~/.m2/repository/ and delete your downloaded dependencies. You can be more specific in what you delete if you have something that you can easily identify as coming from a specific dependency.