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 solved the problem in eclipse by adding toolsjarSystemPath as a default vm argument

Windows-->Preferences-->Java-->InstalledJREs-->EditJRE Add default vm argument: -DtoolsjarSystemPath=%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar