Eclipse / Maven – Missing artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6

To resolve this error on your Eclipse all you have to do is

1. Copy the tools.jar from the jdk distribution on your machine to your local maven repository

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=jdk.tools -DartifactId=jdk.tools -Dpackaging=jar -Dversion=1.6 -Dfile=tools.jar -DgeneratePom=true

2.  Add the following dependency in your pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>jdk.tools</groupId>
    <artifactId>jdk.tools</artifactId>
    <version>1.6</version>
</dependency>