Eclipse on OSX Quick-Tip: Access Restriction Error

April 28, 2010 | 0 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

I have repeatedly come across this problem with Maven, Eclipse and e2eclipse on OSX:

After importing the Maven project into eclipse, I am getting a lot of the following errors:
Access restriction: The type Resource is not accessible due to restriction on required library /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Classes/classes.jar



The solution is the following:

1. Go to Project->Properties->Java Build Path
2. Select the JRE System Library -> click Edit
3. Select Workspace default JRE: