hi - thanks v much for putting this together
i installed eclipse and created a maven project, eclipse vn as follows:
Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (includes Incubating components)
Version: 2021-06 (4.20.0)
Build id: 20210612-2011
i downloaded pom.xml, replaced default pom.xml, got an issue with missing version at line 68 (plugin spark-boot-maven-plugin).
i added the 2.5.2 and it cleared the error.