IntelliJ Compilation Error zip END header not found

Question

The Issue

I am unable to compile Java code for an imported Eclipse project on IntelliJ build 182.4505.22 on Java 9 and 10. The following error is displa

Answer 1

This can also occurs when you use a dependency that requires to be of type pom (to transitively add all dependencies, useful for BOMs) but without specifying it.

For example if you have a Spring Boot project and use that starter :

    org.zkoss.zkspringboot
    zkspringboot-starter
    ${zkspringboot.version}

Then mvn clean package will give you the following error :

Error: java: cannot access com.example.myproject

And running the app will result in the following error :

java: error reading ...\.m2\repository\org\zkoss\zkspringboot\zkspringboot-starter\2.3.0\zkspringboot-starter-2.3.0.jar; zip END header not found

because it should not perform any packaging.

Adding the pom packaging type fixes the problem, so that it keeps the artifact simply as a descriptor of dependency versions :

    org.zkoss.zkspringboot
    zkspringboot-starter
    ${zkspringboot.version}
    pom