Issues with Maven project for Hibernate tutorial - eclipse

Question

I am following the Hibernate documentation and trying to create a Maven project in my eclipse. I have created a new maven project by selecting default options shown in eclipse except for groupId, artifactId and version details which I have selected (org.hibernate.tutorials, hibernate-tutorial, 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT respectively) based on the information present in pom.xml shown in Hibernate documentation. After that I have replaced the pom.xml file in my project with the one shown in documentation. Then I have added version details for each of the dependencies which are missing in the documentation. Here is my final pom.xml file:
<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>org.hibernate.tutorials</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-tutorial</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>First Hibernate Tutorial</name>
<build>
<!-- we dont want the version to be part of the generated war file name -->
<finalName>${artifactId}</finalName>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>4.3.6.Final</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Because this is a web app, we also have a dependency on the servlet api. -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate uses slf4j for logging, for our purposes here use the simple backend -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
<version>1.5.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javassist</groupId>
<artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
<version>3.12.1.GA</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Now in eclipse I see below errors:
1) Maven Configuration Problem:
Failure to transfer
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:pom:2.5 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
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:pom:2.5 from/to
central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): The operation was
cancelled.
2) Maven Problems:
CoreException: Could not get the value for parameter compilerId for plugin execution default-compile: PluginResolutionException: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to collect dependencies for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:jar:2.3.2 (): ArtifactDescriptorException: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-container-default:jar:1.0-alpha-9-stable-1: UnresolvableModelException: Failure to transfer org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-containers:pom:1.0.3 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 org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-containers:pom:1.0.3 from/to central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): The operation was cancelled.
3) Maven Problem:
CoreException: Could not get the value for parameter compilerId for plugin execution default-testCompile: PluginResolutionException: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failure to transfer org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils:jar:1.4.1 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 org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils:jar:1.4.1 from/to central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): The operation was cancelled.
4) Maven Problem:
Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (execution: default-compile, phase: compile)
5) Maven Problem:
Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:testCompile (execution: default-testCompile, phase: test-compile)
6) Maven Problem:
Project configuration is not up-to-date with pom.xml. Run Maven->Update Project or use Quick Fix.
Update: When I build the project in eclipse I am getting below error:
Errors occurred during the build.
Errors running builder 'Maven Project Builder' on project 'hibernate-tutorial'.
Could not calculate build plan: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:jar:2.5
Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:jar:2.5
Could not calculate build plan: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:jar:2.5
Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:jar:2.5
Please help me how can I fix these issues. I am blocked at first step of learning Hibernate.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Exit eclipse
Remove (or rename to be safe) your .m2/repository directory, it will be located in your home directory on your machine.
Start eclipse, right click your project, select Update Maven Project, check Force Update of Snapshots/Releases, press OK

Answer 2

It did not allow me to rename .m2 dir. Below are the detailed steps which resolved my error:
* I removed project from Eclipse
* Exited Eclipse
* Deleted (not shift deleted) .m2 folder from C/Users/Kshitija/ location
* Opened Eclipse, created maven project again
* Right clicked on the project -> Maven -> update project -> selected an option of "check Force Update of Snapshots/Releases", press OK
as soon as project is built, the error disappeared