I\'m using win8 previously I had been running Eclipse Juno on my pc but from now on I wanted to start using STS, I am getting the below error as soon as I create a new project.
I'm a little late to the party but I'll give my two cents. I just resolved this issue after spending longer than I'd like on it. The above solutions didn't work for me and here's why:
there was a network issue when maven was downloading the required repositories so I actually didn't have the right jars. adding a -U to a maven clean install went and got them for me. So if the above solutions aren't working try this:
Hope it works for you.