Problem in compiling and installing a simple maven project

While running “mvn install” We may receive the following error:

Error installing artifact's metadata: Error installing metadata:

Error updating group repository metadata

input contained no data

Reason:

      The problem here was an empty/corrupted maven-metadata-local.xml in our local repository of the artifact wanted to install.


Solution:

   Find the maven-metadata-local.xml using below given command

   sudo find / -name maven-metadata-local.xml -empty -print

   Remove the file maven-metadata-local.xml from that location and run "mvn install". This will work perfectly.