While compiling or building a maven project, sometimes you may get an invalid CEN header (bad signature) error like below, [INFO] Building OpenJavaProfiler 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT [INFO] ———————————————————————— [INFO] [INFO] — maven-resources-plugin:2.3:resources (default-resources) @ OpenJavaProfiler — [WARNING] Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent! [INFO] Copying 0 resource [INFO] [INFO] — […]

Anyone who has worked on a Maven project knows that build and dependency management can sometimes throw curveballs your way. One such issue is the “Error Parsing Lifecycle Processing Instructions” error. This error can stop your project build process dead in its tracks, and today, we’re going to look at how to resolve it.   […]