I am a newbie to maven. I have installed apache archiva in my machine to use as maven-proxy. My purpose is that I want to generate a sample project structure using maven ar
As the help link points out, it looks like you may have a corrupt jar, in this case maven-invoker-2.0.x.jar. You can examine your local repository and verify it and if required delete it and retry.
It is also possible that your archiva itself has the corrupt jar in which case you need to delete it there.