springboot Maven Build Fails when “spring-boot-starter-web-services” starter is used with 2.1.13.RELEASE of Spring Boot Version

I am not able to build spring boot application when spring web service starter is used with 2.1.13.RELEASE version of spring boot. This is coming due to spring-ws-core:jar:3.0.8.RELEASE.

Exception while building application : It comes during default test case execution

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to introspect Class [org.springframework.ws.config.annotation.WsConfigurationSupport] from ClassLoader [sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@42a57993]
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/xml/transform/TransformerObjectSupport

Warning : The POM for org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-core:jar:3.0.8.RELEASE is invalid, transitive dependencies (if any) will not be available, enable debug logging for more details

POM :

<project>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.1.13.RELEASE</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>demo</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>demo</name>
    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web-services</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
                    <artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

Comment From: wilkinsona

Thanks for the report. It looks like Maven has corrupted the pom file for spring-ws-core:

The POM for org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-core:jar:3.0.8.RELEASE is invalid, transitive dependencies (if any) will not be available, enable debug logging for more details

This could be due to some local proxy mis-configuration or a network error while it was being transferred. The latter should be fixed by deleting the corrupted pom from your local Maven cache and rebuilding your application. The former will require you to make some configuration changes.