title: Project build error: 'groupId' with value 'IOCProj1(Basic)' does not match a valid id pattern
body: <p>I have an issue with my POM:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"&gt;
    &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;IOCProj1(Basic)&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;IOCProj1(Basic)&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;build&gt;
      &lt;sourceDirectory&gt;src&lt;/sourceDirectory&gt;
      &lt;resources&gt;
        &lt;resource&gt;
          &lt;directory&gt;src&lt;/directory&gt;
          &lt;excludes&gt;
            &lt;exclude&gt;**/*.properties&lt;/exclude&gt;
          &lt;/excludes&gt;
        &lt;/resource&gt;
      &lt;/resources&gt;
      &lt;plugins&gt;
        &lt;plugin&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-compiler-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;3.3&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;configuration&gt;
            &lt;source&gt;1.7&lt;/source&gt;
            &lt;target&gt;1.7&lt;/target&gt;
          &lt;/configuration&gt;
          &lt;dependencies&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;4.2.5.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;/dependencies&gt;
        &lt;/plugin&gt;
      &lt;/plugins&gt;
    &lt;/build&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Stack: This is the error showing in console </p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] Scanning for projects...
  [ERROR] [ERROR] Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs:
  [ERROR] 'groupId' with value 'IOCProj1(Basic)' does not match a valid id pattern. @ line 3, column 12
   @ 
  [ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -&gt; [Help 1]
  [ERROR]   
  [ERROR]   The project IOCProj1(Basic):com.nt.cfgs:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT (C:\Users\shrut\workspace\IOCProj1(Basic)\pom.xml) has 1 error
  [ERROR]     'groupId' with value 'IOCProj1(Basic)' does not match a valid id pattern. @ line 3, column 12
  [ERROR] 
  `enter code here`[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
  [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
  [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildingException
  </code></pre>