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Maven not downloading dependencies in Eclipse

I am setting up a project in eclipse . This projects builds successfully through command line(all mvn commands like mvn package, mvn compile, mvn clean install) work perfectly fine. While setting up this project on STS or Eclipse . I see some of the dependencies are not getting downloaded even though they are present in pom.xml. However, searching them in the maven repository and downloading the jar to my local computer and then adding them to build path makes it work on Eclipse.
Is there anything that we need to do to eclipse to make sure it downloads all the dependencies from the repository.
My POM:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.bookkeeper</groupId>
<artifactId>bookkeeper-server-compat410</artifactId>
<version>4.1.0</version>
<scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.bookkeeper</groupId>
<artifactId>bookkeeper-server</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.bookkeeper</groupId>
<artifactId>bookkeeper-server-compat420</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0</version>
<scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.bookkeeper</groupId>
<artifactId>bookkeeper-server</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
Both these artifacts were not downloaded for eclipse and there jars found http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.bookkeeper/bookkeeper-server-compat410/4.1.0 and http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.bookkeeper/bookkeeper-server-compat420/4.2.0 were not present in the folder for MavenDependencies and were subsequently giving errors in Eclipse.
However manually adding them to the build path created a new folder (Reference Library) and resolved the Eclipse Errors . Why did Eclipse not download and import these dependencies by themselves from the maven repository ?? Is it a bug in Eclipse or some problem from my side . Please help.

I got the same problem and this is how i solved. :
Right click your project, choose Run As -> Maven install.
Observe the output console to see the installation progress. After
the installation is finished, you can continue to the next step.
Right click your Spring MVC project, choose Maven -> Update Project.
Choose your project and click OK. Wait until update process is
finished.
The error still yet, then do Project->Clean and then be sure you have selected our project directory and then do the follow Project->Build.

Solution 1:
Set correct proxy:
<proxy>
<id>optional</id>
<active>false</active>
<protocol>http</protocol>
<username></username>
<password></password>
<host>172.27.171.91</host>
<port>8080</port>
</proxy>
Solution2 :
just delete
lastupdated extension files from folder
and try updating maven.
[Most of the times this solution will work]

Sometimes there is an error downloading a dependency - eg. some files are downloaded but the actual JAR is missing from the local Maven repository.
In this case I had to delete the whole folder of the problematic dependency in the local maven repository. Only then did Maven update work (Right-click on the project and select Project > Maven > Update Project.... )

In my case, I had unchecked Build automatically. Checking it again started downloading the jars.

I have come across the same issue recently.
First of all you have to configure proxy settings in settings.xml in your maven repository.
If you are using eclipse/STS then please do verify following.
Window -> Preferences -> Maven -> User Settings -> update user settings by pointing your settings.xml
Now it's set to update the maven project. It worked for me.

I was facing similar sort of issue. I tried deleting folders inside .m2 and again building maven project.
I could download all dependency except one dependency which we have created by ourselves and published on Nexus.
Then I changed by java pointing from JRE to JDK which solved my problem

The following worked for me.
Just right-click on Project -> Maven -> Update Project... such as it is shown here.

I had faced a similar issue and following the below steps helped me fix it.
Delete the last modified jar from respective folders.
Select the project
Right Click -> Maven
Update project..
It will download all the missing Jars.

Try to move your dependencies from "type" tag to "scope" tag like below
or
<dependency>
<groupId>net.xyz.xyz</groupId>
<artifactId>xyz-xyz</artifactId>
<version>x.y.z</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
or
<dependency>
<groupId>net.xyz.xyz</groupId>
<artifactId>xyz-xyz</artifactId>
<version>x.y.z</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
then further Maven > Update Project

For me I changed the packaging from pom to jar, and then the dependency got downloaded.
so I changed from <packaging>pom</packaging> to <packaging>jar</packaging>

Make sure you're defining the dependency as close as possible to the leaf of the project tree where it is needed. Otherwise, Maven might ignore it.
For example, if you have a parent project that references projects A and B and the dependency is with respect to project A, then defining the dependency in the parent's pom.xml might get ignored by Maven. So, define it in project A's pom.xml.
Parent Project's pom.xml
Sub-project A's pom.xml <<< define the dependency where it is needed
Sub-project B's pom.xml

I hope this helps someone as it took me 2 days to realize. I re-imported the project multiple times and followed every possible step I've seen online and in the end I had added a small piece of xml code within the pom.xml. Even though it wasn't erroring or even showing a warning it was preventing maven from reading the lifecycle-mappings.
Click into your pom.xml and go to the dependencies tab on the bottom left, if you see an error there it's likely your pom.xml is corrupted in some way and maven will never attempt to download the dependencies even though you won't get any real error. I had looked back at a previous PR and noticed where/what I added and removed it and was able to get maven to work.

The container 'Maven Dependencies' references non existing library - STS

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 deleted my .m2 folder and everything related to Eclipse in order to start over from scratch still didn't work, I've ran out of ideas. Any advice???
Can not find the tag library descriptor for "springframework.org/tags" index.jsp /app/src/main/webapp line 6 JSP Problem
The container 'Maven Dependencies' references non existing library 'C:\Users\Pablo.m2\repository\org\springframework\spring-webmvc\3.2.3.RELEASE\spring-webmvc-3.2.3.RELEASE.jar' app Build path Build Path Problem
The project cannot be built until build path errors are resolved app Unknown Java Problem
ArtifactTransferException: Failure to transfer antlr:antlr:jar:2.7.7 from http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of central has elapsed or updates are forced. Original error: Could not transfer artifact antlr:antlr:jar:2.7.7 from/to central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): No response received after 60000 pom.xml /app line 1 Maven Dependency Problem
22 more errors like this for each of my dependencies...
Class 'org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver' not found [config set: app/web-context] mvc-config.xml /app/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF line 16 Spring Beans Problem

So I get you are using Eclipse with the M2E plugin. Try to update your Maven configuration : In the Project Explorer, right-click on the project, Maven -> Update project.
If the problem still remains, try to clean your project: right-click on your pom.xml, Run as -> Maven build (the second one). Enter "clean package" in the Goals fields. Check the Skip Tests box. Click on the Run button.
Edit: For your new problem, you need to add Spring MVC to your pom.xml. Add something like the following:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>4.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
Maybe you have to change the version to match the version of your Spring framework. Take a look here:
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-webmvc

I got the same problem and this is how i solved. :
Right click your Spring MVC project, choose Run As -> Maven install.
Observe the output console to see the installation progress. After
the installation is finished, you can continue to the next step.
Right click your Spring MVC project, choose Maven -> Update Project.
Choose your project and click OK. Wait until update process is
finished.
The error still yet, then do Project->Clean and then be sure you have selected our project directory and then do the follow Project->Build.

Although it's too late , But here is my experience .
Whenever you get your maven project from a source controller or just copying your project from one machine to another , you need to update the dependencies .
For this Right-click on Project on project explorer -> Maven -> Update Project.
Please consider checking the "Force update of snapshot/releases" checkbox.
If you have not your dependencies in m2/repository then you need internet connection to get from the remote maven repository.
In case you have get from the source controller and you have not any unit test , It's probably your test folder does not include in the source controller in the first place , so you don't have those in the new repository.so you need to create those folders manually.
I have had both these cases .

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:
Right click on your project -> Choose Run as -> 5 Maven build...
In the Goals field type "clean install -U" and select Run
After that completes right click on your project again and choose Maven -> Update Project and click ok.
Hope it works for you.

I finally found my maven repo mirror is down. I changed to another one, problem solved.

Today I had this same problem with another jar. I tried multiple things people said on Stackoverflow, but nothing worked. Eventually I did this:
Close eclipse and any project-app that is running.
Delete the .m2 folder (Users --> [your_username] --> .m2). It's an invisible folder, make sure you are able to view invisible folders.
Restarted Eclipse (I guess it works in other IDE too) and updated my project.
Now it works again for me. Perhaps this solves the problem for someone else too.

I have solved it using "force update", pressing Alt+F5 as it is mentioned in the following link.

In Eclipse adding to the #Saket Mittal response.
Run As > Maven build...
Set goals clean install and run

Successful build in Maven still showing errors in Eclipse

I'm having something quite peculiar here, my build is successful in maven when I type "mvn clean install" however once imported into Eclipse it's showing errors.
See for yourself:
I guess exluding quartz from the `pom.xml solved the problem but I'd like to know why.
PS: Here is the pom.xml in case you want to see it:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.nantes.mpclient</groupId>
<artifactId>MyClient</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>MyClient</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.nantes.mp</groupId>
<artifactId>MyEjb</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.jbossas</groupId>
<artifactId>jboss-as-client</artifactId>
<version>5.1.0.GA</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
###EDIT
As you can see quartz is here:

Updating maven project after importing it has fixed this issue for me:
Right click on the project --> Maven --> Update project.

Sometimes I get these types of issues as well.
Generally, what worked best for me with Eclipse & Maven:
Use the latest m2e Eclipse plugin
Use Maven 3
Make sure m2e uses the same Maven version as the one you're using on the command line (not the internal one)
Import projects as Maven projects to generate the Eclipse project files

The other upvoted answers did not work for me using these versions:
Eclipse Neon
Maven 3
m2e 1.7
This is what I had to do:
Delete the Eclipse project from Eclipse interface (do not delete project contents on disk)
Go to the project's root directory in a file explorer or terminal
Delete these files: .classpath, .project, and .settings directory
Back to Eclipse, File -> Import... -> Maven -> Existing Maven projects

If you don't see any error in Eclipse project but it keeps showing the red icon on your project name. Try mvn eclipse:eclipse.
Then select all projects in Eclipse, Right click > Maven > Update projects
Hope it helps.

You should try mvn eclipse:eclipse
And then make sure the M2_REPO variable is point to your local repository.

sometimes maven update nor all above works.
so check which import statement gives you error, then go particular lib file which is usually in c:user/ur-PC-NAME/.m2 get into package delete that .jar file.
then in eclipse, right click on project > maven > update maven.

Sometimes the m2e "maintained" eclipse project is out-of-sync with the actual project in POM (There are lots of reason for that). Assume you have using m2e 0.8 or later, right click on the project, under Maven, there are two entries that are usually useful. They are Update Dependencies and Update Project Configuration
Have a try on them, wait a while after u clicked that for eclipse to update the project and build. Normally it solves similar problems.

That often happens when the m2eclipse hasn't updated the build path to correspond to what a modified POM file says. There's an entry in the Maven context menu to update the Configuration.

In my case,
I just deleted project from Eclipse (not ticked checkbox to delete
from project location).
Opened project as "Existing Maven Project" again.
and it solved my issue.

I found that my project was using a project specific Java Compiler setting set to Java 1.5. Furthermore, the project facets were still referencing Java 1.5 when Maven, m2e, Eclipse general Java Compiler settings were all set to Java 1.8.

In my case there were also problems with Java build path like the following:
"Build path specifies execution environment J2SE-1.5. There are no JREs installed in the workspace that are strictly compatible with this environment." Fixing this resolved compilation errors.

You've a library (quartz-1.5.2.jar) that's reference to your m2 local repository which doesn't exist if you just remove the quartz from your build path and update your dependencies internally(in eclipse) that would solve the problem

Try to use different/older version of JRE. In my case switching back to JRE7 from JRE8 eliminated the problem.

Delete and Re-Import the project in eclipse (without deleting files of course). Unlike other answers I have not looked into why this happens but it works. poof - compilations errors be-gone

It may help: After upgrading eclipse or changing it or something like, old eclipse specific files (.classpath, .project, and .settings) may not be compatible to the new version of eclipse. So you may have to re generate this eclipse specific files using Maven. So try this in your eclipse project root
mvn eclipse:eclipse

In my case, eclipse starts to show all errors after I changed some versions of dependencies in pom.xml, however the command line mvn clean install build successfully
I deleted folders of the dependencies I changed manually from the .m2 repositories (in my case everything under org.apache.beam), because I also has corrupted dependency issues.
mvn clean build the project, this downloaded the dependencies again
right click project: maven -> update project
delete the project from eclipse (but not from disk) and reimport (this actually left me with 1 error still, then i delete and reimported again)

Go to Eclipse> Project (Menu) > Clean... > Select project to clean
This also removes invalid errors from Eclipse.

For me Right click on the project --> Maven --> Update project with the "Force Update of Snapshots/Releases" checkmarked worked.

Some times, eclipse's validation causing these errors.
You can disable them by going to Menu>window>preferences>validation and uncheck suspend all validators or disable them one by one for builds.
E.G, every time You build the project eclipse does not validate your files and does not show up those errors.

This worked for me
Delete the Eclipse project from Eclipse interface (do not delete
project contents on disk)
Go to the project's root directory in a
file explorer or terminal
Delete these files: .classpath, .project,
and .settings directory
Back to Eclipse, File -> Import... -> Maven
-> Existing Maven projects

Got the same problem, I deleted the project from my workspace (not on disk), opened the project folder and deleted the files .project, .classpath and the folder named .settings.
Now goto eclipse again, import the same project again and viola my error is gone!

Error opening Maven POM file dependency hierarchy in Eclipse - "Project read error"

When I open a POM file and click on the "Dependency Hierarchy" tab at the bottom, it gives me the error, "Project read error". It works with other projects in the same workspace, just not with this one. Any ideas?
EDIT
In response to #Yhn's answer.
Running the compile and package phases outside of Eclipse from the command-line work as expected. It compiles the application and builds the final WAR file.
Eclipse is indeed pointing to the default location of the Maven settings.xml file, so it should be aware of the custom repositories that are defined in it (my company has its own Maven repository).
I can open and edit the POM file from Eclipse, so it must have read/write permissions to the file.
The project is not configured in Eclipse as a Maven project, so I cannot run the package phase from Eclipse (I can only run it from the command-line).
I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I was having trouble building the project with Maven 3 because apparently some of the transitive dependencies are configured for Maven 1, which Maven 3 does not support (this is my theory anyway, based on some of the error messages). I can build the project with Maven 2, but I still get messages such as the following:
Downloading: http://dist.codehaus.org/mule/dependencies/maven2/org/codehaus/xfie/bcprov-jdk14/133/bcprov-jdk14-133.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.codehaus.xfire:bcprov-jdk14:pom:133' in repsitory mule (http://dist.codehaus.org/mule/dependencies/maven2)
It must be able to find these dependences however, because it downloaded the JARs just fine and can build the application. It seems like the problem is that the dependencies don't have POM files associated with them, which is maybe why they cannot be used with Maven 3. This might also be why I cannot view the Dependency Hierarchy in Eclipse.
EDIT 2
I converted the project to a Maven project by going to "Configure > Convert to Maven Project". When I open the POM file, I see the error:
ArtifactDescriptorException: Failed to read artifact descriptor for woodstox:wst (Click for 140 more)
(woodstox:wst is another transitive dependency of the project). An error appears in the "Markers" view for seemingly every depedency and transitive dependency in my project. However, I can successfully build the project by doing a "Run As > Maven build". (Edit: This might be because this project has no Java source code, but the JARs of the dependencies correctly appear in the final WAR.) The Dependency Hierarchy still gives the same error--"Project read error".
About the "Unable to find resource" messages--but this only appears for a handful of transitive dependencies. The project has many more transitive dependencies, but these messages do not appear for them. It seems like, because the dependencies do not have POM files, that Maven tries to search for them every time the project is built. Is this normal not to have POMs??
How might I go about getting a repo manager? Is this something that would have to be installed on the company's Maven repository or can you install it on your own workstation?

I had this problem with some non-maven jars that I needed to include in my maven project. I put the jars in my local repository using this maven command:
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=/test/gov.nist.xccdf-1.2.jar -DgroupId=gov.nist -DartifactId=xccdf -Dpackaging=jar -Dversion=1.2
Then I referred to them as dependencies in my pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>gov.nist</groupId>
<artifactId>xccdf</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
This worked fine for a while, but I must have upgraded something in eclipse, and I started getting the error you describe.
The fix is to take them out of the local repository, and redo the install-file asking maven to generate a pom for you:
mvn -DgeneratePom=true install:install-file -Dfile=/test/gov.nist.xccdf-1.2.jar -DgroupId=gov.nist -DartifactId=xccdf -Dpackaging=jar -Dversion=1.2
The command will cause a pom to be generated in the same directory (within your local repo) where the jar is placed.
In recent versions of eclipse maven support, the maven build is still done with maven 2 (if you right-click your pom.xml, choose run as mvn package for example). The dependency analysis is now done with an embedded maven 3 plugin, which doesn't like a dependency that has no pom.xml.

I had the same problem. If you made your project a maven project, you should run:
Right Mouse Click on project | Maven | Update Dependencies or
Right Mouse Click on project | Maven | Update Project Configuration
That worked for me.

Given the information through the comments:
mvn compile/mvn package work through console (I'm assuming outside of eclipse). Based on that, the POM file should be correct and dependencies can be resolved.
However; it could be that eclipse's settings aren't correct. For example, if eclipse has some own maven properties (instead of the default ~/.m2/settings.xml file); I can imagine it to fail resolving dependencies configured in the settings.xml used by maven itself. The settings for this should be in the Eclipse Preferences # Maven > User Settings.
Also make sure that Eclipse can actually read the file (not locked, correct rights, etc).
Should this seem to be correct; can you try to run the mvn goal compile from eclipse? You can do this by right-clicking the project and selecting run as > maven package. That way it should run maven with the same settings as eclipse is using, and might show any additional errors in it's configuration.
--
In response to additional information:
Basically it tells you - when using Maven 2 - that it can't find a dependency resource (in this case bcprov-jdk14) in the given repository (codehaus/mule). When I search that maven module (bcprov-jdk14) I find it in the Maven central repo (through our local nexus) # repo1.maven.org/maven2. Maybe that causes the error you're getting with Maven2?
And as the Maven 3 doc says; for Maven 1.x repo's; you should proxy them through a repo manager that can serve it to you as a maven 2 repository (I believe we do that here too for some repo's through Sonatype Nexus OSS)
ps.: Enabling maven dependency management in eclipse should be enough to be able to use maven run targets; if you would want to test it.
--
Sound like it can be multiple problems... given that the normal maven build works fine, one would think that maven can at least get the artifacts it depends upon and their dependencies... Yet, eclipse doesn't seem to be able to.
Double check if your Eclipse internet connection settings are correct? Since you were talking about a company repo, I'm assuming there will probably also be a proxy (I had to set up my Eclipse to use that one too; though for plugins (see next point)).
Another possibility, from experience, can be a rule-based proxy block on *.pom url requests (our proxy here blocks that to force usage of the local repo manager, how evil and annoying that is :(). You might want to try and open the .pom file it tries to download manually in your browser to see if this is the case (I can't, for example...).
To get the repo set up, you would probably have to ask the one responsible for the repository to add it as a maven2 proxy.
At the very least, it seems Eclipse is having issues getting the dependency poms (which are needed to build the dependency tree) from the internet. You could always try to ask some ICT crew (if they are capable enough...) about it at your company, maybe they have some useful hints.

right click on the project, Maven->Update Project->Tick "Force Update of Snapshots/Releases"

I had the same problem when I added a new dependency to pom.xml without network connection. After this, I had so many problems such as "Missing artifacts", "Missing Descriptor", or "Project Read error". I solved this
delete the bad dependency just added from local repository.
rebuild local index.
re-add the dependency

<properties>
<!-- ********************** -->
<!-- Plugin's properties -->
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<java.version>1.7</java.version>
</properties>
this pom setting worked for me

Usually this happens if there is a typo in the pom that Maven cannot understand and then it throws Project read error. Like in my case I copied a maven dependency snippet and I by passed the version. Instead of typing the actual version # it was getting it dynamically ${asciidoctorj.version} and my pom didn't have this in the properties section. So I got this error. Once I removed that and put a version number it started working.

I had this after copying a local repository folder from another machine. The fix was to go into the repository folder I copied and delete
_remote.repositories along with the 'LastUpdated' files then refresh the Maven dependencies in Eclipse (Alt+F5)

I faced same situation today. In my case it's caused by dependency name in wrong case. E.g.
Project A -> Project B -> Project C
In project B's pm file, I mistakenly specified the dependency artifacts name with "c" in stead of "C".
As in mac os, the files system is case insensitive. so I can build it in command line without detecting this mistake.
In Eclipse it breaks, but it provides very bad error message. In the error list, it says "dependency problem", but the name of dependency is empty. It also can't identify which line in the POM causes the problem.
When try to open "Effective POM" in POM viewer, it will show project read error. In the pop up error dialog box, it will show:
Could not read maven project
java.nio.channels.OverlappingFileLockException
All the messages are useless and misleading.
I finally detected this problem by submit to Jenkins CI after wasted hours of time.

I did maven clean install and the errors were gone

I faced the same issue of "Project read error" while clicking on "Dependency Hierarchy" tab. In my project I had a parent pom and child pom.
Parent pom had a property <appVersion>4.5<appVersion> that was being used in child pom
<version>${appVersion}<version>.
I selected the main project, right click and choose run as maven clean. The console display showed warning that version is using expression but should be a constant. Replacing ${appVersion} with constant value of 4.5 fixed the issue.

Maven 2 dependency problem

I'm merging two projects into one(mergin project1 into project2). Now I'm going to copy all dependencies from project1 pom into project2 pom, like :
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-configuration</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-configuration</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
</dependency>
And some others. The build is successful the thing in eclipse annoys me so much like when hovering over import org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationException:
The import org.apache.commons.configuration cannot be resolved
But the build still succeds, what can I do to get rid of these?

If you use m2eclipse, you need to click Maven -> Update Dependencies.
Otherwise I guess you need to regenerate the Eclipse project with mvn eclipse:eclipse.

Try doing 'mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse'. That will force maven to delete all of the old eclipse configurations for your project and rebuild them from scratch.

Maybe try to edit POM by inserting whitespace and saving it. It should trigger rebuilding of the project. There is also a "Refresh Dependencies" option in m2eclipse plugin.
I had similiar problems when I used Eclipse integrated with Maven and the 1st technique usually helped.

Make sure a build is done successfully and ensure that on your Package Explorer the org.apache.commons jar is found under the Maven Dependencies section (given you have m2eclipse plugin installed in your eclipse)

What version of Eclipse, mvn and m2eclipse? Might want to double-check those.
You shouldn't need to do mvn eclipse:eclipse anymore - that's obsolete. You can try deleting your Eclipse project files and reopening the project (settings, project, classpath).