BeanDefinitionStoreException Failed to read candidate component class

Question

Can someone tell me how to solve this issue?

I have narrowed down the problem to the pom.xml file. My project works but when I add the following dependency I get an

Answer 1

I had a similar error due to a corrupted class file -- somehow the CI build had a zero bytes class file in the jar (despite a non-zero inner class file being present, others ok) - one broken file out of ~100 classes. It might have been a disk space issue, but took a while to realise (since the class was in a dependent project jar, built by Gradle into a fat-jar for a Spring Boot project).