STS newbie problem

[hagaic]

OK, this is my first time with STS. I just installed STS 2.8.0, created a workspace, and created a Spring Template Project > Spring MVC Project. I didn't add or change any code yet, but all the libraries seem to be broken...
I have a lot of red in the imports in the source code.
The Problems view shows a lot of missing JARs like:
Missing artifact junit:junit:jar:4.7 pom.xml ‪/hello‬ line 1 Maven Dependency Problem
The Projet > Properties > Libraries shows all Maven dependencies missing their JARs, for example:
junit-4.7.jar is missing from: C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\.m2\repository\junit\junit\4.7

Am I doing something wrong?

[hagaic]

I made progress by cleaning some caches and doing "Update dependencies" and "Update Project Configuration" - (force update of snapshots/release).
Now it seems the jars got downloaded.
I still have one problem: Can not find the tag library descriptor for "http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" home.jsp ‪/hello/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views‬ line 1 JSP Problem
But - the "Hello World" now works.

[Martin Lippert]

Hi!

Good to hear you made progress with regards to the Maven classpath of your project. The problem with the tag lib descriptor is this one here:

https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-2249

So you can fix this my changing "http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" to "http://java.sun.com/jstl/core". I will also update the template project to reflect this.

HTH,
Martin

[hagaic]

Thanks!!!!

[phiri]

Hi!

Good to hear you made progress with regards to the Maven classpath of your project. The problem with the tag lib descriptor is this one here:

https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-2249

So you can fix this my changing "http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" to "http://java.sun.com/jstl/core". I will also update the template project to reflect this.

HTH,
Martin

Thank you for this; hasn't the template project been updated yet? Just installed STS and ran into this issue as well.

[Martin Lippert]

Hi!

No, the template hasn't been updated yet. It doesn't seem to be obvious that changing the URL is the "right" solution for this. But I will discuss this with the template owners to figure out how the solution should look like. Just do a clean build of the project (Project menu -> clean) and the error marker will go away.

Cheers,
-Martin