I was able to resolve this issue with a project of mine by forcing vscode to reload my project configuration. I followed the steps from here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-java-debug/blob/master/Troubleshooting.md#build-failed-do-you-want-to-continue

Edit: The wording of the command has changed, but the above linked doc has not been updated. I updated my answer as mentioned in the comments.

It was this command that fixed vscode for me:

Open your Maven pom.xml file or Gradle build.gradle file, then run VS Code command "Java: Reload project" to force the language server to update the project configuration/classpath.

I recently helped a friend with a similar issue, and for her we had to delete the .classpath file from the project directory before doing the Update project configuration command.

It can also be found by right-clicking the build file.

Answer from Mike Burnham on Stack Overflow
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java - Why does VS Code think this Spring Framework import cannot be resolved? - Stack Overflow
I'm trying to run a Java/Maven project that apparently works for others, but VS Code won't run this Spring Boot project because: The import org.springframework.data cannot be resolved. import org.
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May 16, 2019 -

I'm trying to follow this tutorial on Windows 10.I have maven setup and installed and the M2 and M2_HOME vars set to my `C:\Maven\bin` and `C:\Maven` folders. I set up my POM file and maven works just fine following the tutorial steps. I have JAVA_HOME added as `C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.2` and java runs in the console just fine. I installed the Java Extension Pack plugin. When I follow the steps though, VS Code says it can't find any of the imports for springframework nor javax.

```

import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

```

If I build via maven then it builds just fine but I can't get rid of all the red lines on VS Code. Can someone help?

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On windows I never Had problem to make my daily work, but on ubuntu, every java file is marked as error, with the message "The import cannot be resolved", searching a litle bit, i found that you can execute the command java:clean the java language server workspace, but this does not fix the problem.
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error: package org.springframework.boot does not exist · Issue #2998 · redhat-developer/vscode-java
March 13, 2023 - ➜ cd "/home/yuri/demo/src/main/java/com/example/demo/" && javac DemoApplication.java && java DemoApplication DemoApplication.java:3: error: package org.springframework.boot does not exist import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication; ^ DemoApplication.java:4: error: package org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure does not exist import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication; ^ DemoApplication.java:6: error: cannot find symbol @SpringBootApplication ^ symbol: class SpringBootApplication DemoApplication.java:10: error: cannot find symbol SpringApplication.run(DemoApplication.class, args); ^ symbol: variable SpringApplication location: class DemoApplication 4 errors · The expected is to run and the application be running on port 8080
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April 30, 2024 -

I'm trying to make an API using springboot and for persistence I'd like to use MongoDB, however when I try to import stuff from .data I can't seem to get it to work.

I tried different dependencies for my pom.xml and tried clearing my cache too but to no avail.

I'm working on eclipse and using springboot 3.2.3 and java 17.

Here are my dependencies

 <dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
			<scope>provided</scope>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>jakarta.xml.bind</groupId>
			<artifactId>jakarta.xml.bind-api</artifactId>
		</dependency>
		
		<!-- added dependencies -->

		<dependency>
		    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
		    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
	        </dependency>

		<dependency>
		    <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId>
		    <artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId>
		    <scope>runtime</scope>
		</dependency>
		  
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
		    <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
		</dependency>
		
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
		    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb</artifactId>
		</dependency>

	</dependencies>

Edit:

As mentioned in the comments just use IntelliJ.

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August 23, 2023 - It just occurred to me to tell you to make sure you're opening the correct folder in VSCode. I kept running into this when I first started learning Spring a few years ago. You should be opening the root folder in the .zip you get from Spring Initializer.
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December 28, 2023 - Yes all other java extensions and vscode provided extension pack for java already installed..
Find elsewhere
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November 14, 2017 - I'm getting an issue The import com.[company name].taskservice cannot be resolved on a project. I was getting this issue first and then I ran a mvn idea:idea and it resolved the dependencies. I...
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April 14, 2020 - import org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate; >エラー The import org.springframework.jdbc cannot be resolvedJava(268435846) @Controller @RequestMapping("/sample") public class SampleController { public final JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate; public SampleController(JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate) { this.jdbcTemplate = jdbcTemplate; } @GetMapping("/test") public String test(Model model) { model.addAttribute("title", "Inquery Form"); return "test"; } }
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package org.springframework. does not exist · microsoft/vscode-discussions · Discussion #1252
June 25, 2024 - I recently started programming in Java using SpringBoot extension for VScode and when I open a project, I often encounter the following error: "package org.springframework.* does not exist(compiler.err.doesnt.exist)." (asterisk is used to indicate all package content) But if I compile and run the code, it works perfectly. I tried installing a new maven dependency (like log4j, for example) but the problem persists. I used both the latest version of the spring boot extension and the pre-release version. Does anyone have an idea how to resolve the error ? Another bug is the non-automatic import of sub-pasckages classes using stable versions of spring boot, but with the pre release it works perfectly.
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May 3, 2025 - an error occurred at line 47 in the jsp file axis2 web include httpbase jsp the type java lang charsequence cannot be resolved i • r cannot be resolved to a variable android studio • which of the following programming languages cannot be used to build android applications • springapplication cannot be resolved • the type java.lang.object cannot be resolved. it is indirectly referenced from required .class files • eclipse java lang class cannot be resolved • string cannot be resolved to a type in eclipse • the import org.openqa.selenium.webdriver cannot be resolved in eclipse •
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No matching variant of org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:3.0.6 was found · Issue #3094 · redhat-developer/vscode-java
April 28, 2023 - Could not resolve org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:3.0.6. Required by: project : > org.springframework.boot:org.springframework.boot.gradle.plugin:3.0.6 No matching variant of org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:3.0.6 was found.
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r/learnjava on Reddit: springframework import
May 9, 2023 -

hi there, I am working on a homework problem that uses springframework imports. However, I cannot figure out how to import them. The imports that are being used are the following:

import org.springframework.http.HttpEntity;
import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;

However, for all of them I get the following error message

The import org.springframework cannot be resolved

How do I import these classes? I already tried downloading SpringTools4 for eclipse and opening my project in there, however the import still couldnt be resolved. Thank you for your help.