Problem scenario
You run a Maven (mvn) command. But you receive an error like this:
[INFO] Scanning for projects…
[ERROR] [ERROR] Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs:
[ERROR] Malformed POM /home/jdoe/b/gs-maven/initial/src/pom.xml: Unrecognised tag: ‘dependency’ (position: START_TAG seen …\n \n \n … @17:17) @ /home/jdoe/b/gs-maven/initial/src/pom.xml, line 17, column 17
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[ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] The project org.springframework:gs-maven:0.1.0 (/home/jdoe/b/gs-maven/initial/src/pom.xml) has 1 error
[ERROR] Malformed POM /home/jdoe/b/gs-maven/initial/src/pom.xml: Unrecognised tag: ‘dependency’ (position: START_TAG seen …\n \n \n … @17:17) @ /home/jdoe/b/gs-maven/initial/src/pom.xml, …
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