This maven error generally happen when create maven based web project by using “maven-archtype-console” which generally try to import all library automatically.

You will see this complete error message on pom.xml

Could not calculate build plan: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.4 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:jar:2.4

POM.XML

  4.0.0
  com.FacingIssuesOnIT
  Spring-Core-Examples
  0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
  Spring-Core-Examples
  Spring Core Exammples

Solution 1:

You need just to follow those steps:
Right Click on your project: Run (As) -> Maven clean
Right Click on your project: Run (As) -> Maven install
After which, if the build fails when you do Maven Install, it means there is no web.xml file under WEB-INF or some problem associated with it.

Solution 2:

Right click on project-> Maven->Click checked box ‘Force Update’->Update