Problem: seeing the message 'error: error reading .../.../...jar; error in opening zip file, it's usually jar file is bad. Solution: installing the right jar file (http://ondra.zizka.cz/stranky/programovani/java/maven/log4j-missing-jmx-sun-deps.texy) mvn install:install-file -Dfile=[downloaded jar file full path] -DgroupId=[group id] -DartifactId=[artifact id] -Dversion=[version] -Dpackaging=jar..