Execution default of goal org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:1.0.2.RELEASE:repackage failed: Source must refer to an existing file

Question

This is my first project using Spring (and I\'m not too experienced with Maven either) and I get the error in the title when running mvn package.

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Answer 1

Ok, I found the error. I needed to change the packaging parameter to jar from pom. Also, the repositories, pluginRepositories, the maven-compiler-plugin and the spring-boot-maven-plugin's version and executions weren't needed.

Answer 2

I added to the pom.xml this configuration

<plugins>
 <plugin>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
      <skip>true</skip>
    </configuration>
 </plugin>
.
.
.
</plugins>

Source

Answer 3

The exact error message in my case was this one:

Failed to execute goal org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:1.5.14.RELEASE:repackage invalid entry size (expected 1 but got 0 bytes)

I was about to create an empty clean Spring Boot project and wanted to build it, to see if everything was good. I found out that error was caused by the presence of en empty application.properties file. It was created but there was no any text in it. After I added a property (example, server.port: 19999), the project was built successfully.

Answer 4

If you are using intelliJ community, nothing listed will work. I switched to Eclipse and was able to run a spring project with the default settings from start.spring.io with while making no changes to the POM file or any settings. It seems intelliJ community makes a confusing mess out of spring projects.

In short try another IDE before going through with any changes. The start.spring.io setup should work as its packaged.

Answer 5

Just adding my experience :

After none of the suggested solutions worked. I figured out there was some issue with the downloaded spring-boot-maven-plugin in the .m2 folder. Deleting the plugin and allowing the "mvn clean install" to re-download and build worked.

Answer 6

Try mvn install before running spring-boot:repackage:

mvn clean install spring-boot:repackage