maven install error - only whitespace content allowed before start tag and not \u0

Question

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:2.3.1:install (default-install) on project ecommerce-web: Failed to install metadat

Answer 1

Just go under

C:\Users\admin\.m2\repository\com\app\ecommerce-web\

and delete maven-metadata-local.xml Then do a clean install one more time, this should fix the problem and that's what I did.