Compiler error archive for required library could not be read - Spring Tool Suite

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I am starting to configure my development environment and I am using Spring Tool Suite 2 8 1 along with m2E 1 01   As far as I can tell  since this is a Maven Project  my first   my Maven POM is dictating  along with m2E smarts  my project build configuration and dependencies   What I would like to know is why my IDE is displaying Java Build Problems that read  Archive required for library library path somejar jar cannot be read or is not a valid zip file  when I can see the jars in my  m2 repository   All the errors pertained to commons-logging 1 1 1 which I excluded in my parent-pom  This was a transistive dependancy via spring-context-support 3 0 5  I excluded that library from my build and now the errors pertain to the spring-context-support library   I have attached a screenshot to illustrate

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I face with the same issue  I deleted the local repository and relaunched the ID  It worked fine

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I deleted the local maven repository   Then just rightclick the project -  Maven -  Update Project    Select all concerned projects and click OK

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When I got an error saying  archive for required library could not be read   I solved it by removing the JARS in question from the Build Path of the project  and then using  Add External Jars  to add them back in again  navigating to the same folder that they were in    Using the  Add Jars  button wouldn t work  and the error would still be there   But using  Add External Jars  worked

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Below Steps resolved my issue    Go to   m2 repository folder  Go to respective archive error folder  Verify any zip file is exist  delete error name folder  Now come to Eclipse Project - Right Click - Maven -   Update Project    Above trick works for me

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I faced this problem  I had  Archive for required library spring-boot-devtools cannot be read or is not a valid ZIP file  and the solution was like that - 1- determine the dependencies names that have problems for may case it is spring-boot-devtools   2- close eclipse  3- search in your  m2 file on these dependencies by name   4- delete these folders  5- reopen eclipse and let maven rebuild your dependencies again

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This happens when Eclipse screws up  To fix it  delete all the files in  workspace  metadata  plugins org eclipse jdt core

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This worked for me    Close Eclipse Delete   m2 repository Open Eclipse  it will automatically download all the jars If still problem remains  then right click project   Maven   Update Project      Check  Force Update of Snapshots Releases

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I was facing the same problem with my project   My project was not able to find this archive  -  C  Users rakeshnarang  m2 repository org hibernate hibernate-core 5 3 7 Final   I went to this directory and deleted this folder   Went back to eclipse and hit ALT   F5 to update the project   The jar file was downloaded again and the problem was solved   You should try this

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none of the solutions above helped my problem  I ve resolved it by deleting all files in  projectworkspace   metadata folder AND in  location   m2 folder and let eclipse download every single thing again  Hope this helps someone  cheers

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I was using Eclipse as IDE and I was getting very same error  I had to do Project- Maven- Update Project  Select all the checkboxes below except  offline  esp  the  one  Force update of snapshots releases  and click OK   Did  the Clean Build for the  Project again

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Alternatively  below commands also worked for me   mvn -s settings xml eclipse clean mvn -s settings xml eclipse eclipse

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Remove maven dependenices from build path

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Just had this problem on Indigo SR2  It popped up after I removed a superfluous jar from the classpath  build path   Restarting Eclipse didn t help  Added back the jar to the build path   error went away  Removed the jar once again  and this time I was spared from another complaint

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Indeed IDEs often cache the local repository  Eclipse does something similar  and I have to relaunch Eclipse    One ugly maven behavior you might encounter is that if you declare a dependency before you actually install it  maven will create an empty version of the missing dependency  folder with metadata but no jar   and you will have to manually clean your  m2 repository   Third  an installed archive  jar     can get corrupted  so try to open it with any archive tool  7zip     to test it  and delete the whole folder if the archive is corrupted

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In my case I had to manually delete all the files in  m2 repository folder and then open command prompt and run mvn -install command in my project directory

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Ok  I had the same problem with STS on a mac and solved it by deleting all the files in repository folder and from the STS IDE click on the project and then Maven -  Update project  Give it a couple of minutes to download all the dependencies and the problem is solved

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In case of VSCode  follow the below steps    Navigate to the respective folder that contains the corrupted jar Delete just the jar mvn clean mvn compile   That worked for me

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This could be due to you have added spring-licence txt file to your web app libraries   I had similar issue and resolved after removing that text file  In libraries it will expect jar file only

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Read the issue in Problems section identify which dependency not able to read  then go the maven repository  m2 repository - gt  1 check the dependencies and delete it from the folder 2 go to STS Eclipse - gt  click on maven - gt  update project - gt select the force update of snapshots releases and click on ok  or delete the dependencies from the  m2 repository and rebuild the maven -- gt  update the maven project

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Delete corrupted files from your local  m2 repository and Ctrl F5  Update Maven Project  in Eclipse STS  It ll download and install these files

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In my case I tried all the tips suggested but the error remained  I solved changing with a more recent version and writing that in the pom xml  After this everything is now ok

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Delete your C  Users PC  m2   folder and update maven project

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For Googlers   In my case I had accidentally manually added a Java class to the build path while poking around Eclipse  By taking a look at the  Configure Build Path     Libraries I removed the culprit class and now only have the    JRE System Library Maven Dependencies   and nothing is complaining

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