Eclipse loops endlessly: Invoking 'Maven Project Builder'

Question

Ugh! My Eclipse is stuck in an endless loop:

• No operations to display at this time
• Refreshing Workspace Building
• Workspace. Invoking \'Maven Pro

Answer 1

1. I have configured the java environment variable properly (i.e., JAVA_HOME).
2. Also added the jdk path to the environment variable path, in my case path is C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_101\bin.
3. Also I added path to JDK home in "Installed JREs" preference in Eclipse.

Not sure which one of this resolved the issue, I don't see auto build happening now.

After this, I created a new maven project. Which was set to use the 1.7 by default, this project too resulted in endless loop. But 1.7 is not configured in eclipse. Updating the project properties to use the java version available in my eclipse has resolved the issue.