Error in POM file while creating Spring Starter Project

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I have just created a new Spring Starter Project in STS. After creating, seen it is not getting fully loaded as MAVEN project. Seen the below error in POM file.

Project build error: Non-parseable POM C:\Users\salim.m2\repository\org\springframework\boot\spring-boot-starter- parent\2.3.0.RELEASE\spring-boot-starter-parent-2.3.0.RELEASE.pom: unexpected markup \n

Not sure what is happening. Please help me with this.

https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> 4.0.0 org.springframework.boot spring-boot-starter-parent 2.3.0.RELEASE com.vishnu.ws.soap hellowebservice 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT hellowebservice Hello SOAP Service

<properties>
    <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
</properties>

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

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
                <artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

If you was used older version from spring, try to remove spring jars from m2 (Delete directory). I think it will help if your pom is correct. — Ibrahim AlTamimi

Henrique Forlani Henrique Forlani · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-31T15:12:04

I don't know if you posted your pom correctly, but it seems to be incorrect, therefore giving the parse error. It's missing some tags apprentely. IT should be something like this for your case:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.0.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.vishnu.ws.soap</groupId>
    <artifactId>hellowebservice</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>hellowebservice</name>
    <description>SOAP Service</description>

   <!-- additional lines as you have it now -->

 </project>

Error in POM file while creating Spring Starter Project

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