Why am I getting Unknown error in line 1 of pom.xml?

Question

Getting unknown error at Line 1 in pom.xml in Eclipse IDE. It was working fine till yesterday, but all of a sudden after updating my project from master and aft

Answer 1

same problem for me, original code from spring starter demo gives unknown error on line 1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.6.RELEASE</version>
    <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
...

Changing just the version of 2.1.6.RELEASE to 2.1.4.RELEASE fixes the problem.

Answer 2

As per the suggestion from @Shravani, in my pom.xml file, I changed my version number in the area from this:

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.5.RELEASE</version>
    <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

to this:

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.4.RELEASE</version>
    <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>

I then right clicked on the project and did a 'Maven -> Update project...'. This made the problem go away for me.

Answer 3

Add <maven-jar-plugin.version>3.1.1</maven-jar-plugin.version> in property tag

problem resolve

https://medium.com/@saannjaay/unknown-error-in-pom-xml-66fb2414991b

Answer 4

whenever you facing this type of error simply change the Release version just like In my case it is showing Error in 2.2.7 I changed to 2.2.6

Problem:

<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.2.7.RELEASE</version>

Solution:

<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.2.6.RELEASE</version>

Answer 5

There is a bug about Eclipse and spring-boot-starter-parent 2.1.5

"if the maven packaging attribute is war then no problem.The problem is in jar type." So you can also fix this problem by changing packaging type.

<packaging>war</packaging>

Answer 6

I was getting same error in Version 3. It worked after upgrading STS to latest version: 4.5.1.RELEASE. No change in code or configuration in latest STS was required.