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

I also had this experience. The simple solution was deleting the relevant content of the .m2 folder and local repo folder and build again using mvn clean install (Please make sure backup your important data :))