Could not calculate build plan: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved

Question

org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginResolutionException: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Faile         


        

Answer 1

Hopefully I'm not late for the party.

Encountered this using Eclipse Kepler and Maven 3.1.

The solution is to use a JDK and not a JRE for your Eclipse project. Make sure to try maven clean and test from eclipse just to download missing jars.