Maven Child Project- Non-resolvable parent POM - maven

Question

I'm trying to make a child project into a parent project (This child project really doesn't depend on parent so I'm trying to make this a parent project so I can merge it with another project during jenkins file).
I changed the parent section of the POM file
<parent>
<artifactId>org.springframework.boot</artifactId>
<groupId>spring-boot-starter-parent</groupId>
<version>1.2.5.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
But when I build I get the following error in jenkins.
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by com.google.inject.internal.cglib.core.$ReflectUtils$1 (file:/usr/share/maven/lib/guice.jar) to method java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(java.lang.String,byte[],int,int,java.security.ProtectionDomain)
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of com.google.inject.internal.cglib.core.$ReflectUtils$1
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
[[1;34mINFO[m] Scanning for projects...
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/spring-boot-starter-parent/org.springframework.boot/1.2.5%20RELEASE/org.springframework.boot-1.2.5%20RELEASE.pom
[[1;31mERROR[m] [ERROR] Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs:
[FATAL] Non-resolvable parent POM for demo-api:demo-api:1.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact spring-boot-starter-parent:org.springframework.boot:pom:1.2.5 RELEASE in central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2) and 'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM # line 5, column 13
#
[[1;31mERROR[m] The build could not read 1 project -> [1m[Help 1][m
[[1;31mERROR[m]
[[1;31mERROR[m] The project demo-api:demo-api:1.0-SNAPSHOT (/home/estt/jenkins/workspace/demo-api-2/pom.xml) has 1 error
[[1;31mERROR[m] Non-resolvable parent POM for demo-api:demo-api:1.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact spring-boot-starter-parent:org.springframework.boot:pom:1.2.5 RELEASE in central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2) and 'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM # line 5, column 13 -> [1m[Help 2][m
[[1;31mERROR[m]
[[1;31mERROR[m] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the [1m-e[m switch.
[[1;31mERROR[m] Re-run Maven using the [1m-X[m switch to enable full debug logging.
[[1;31mERROR[m]
Here is the complete pom.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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">
<parent>
<artifactId>org.springframework.boot</artifactId>
<groupId>spring-boot-starter-parent</groupId>
<version>1.2.5.RELEASE</version>
</parent>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<artifactId>demo-api</artifactId>
<groupId>demo-api</groupId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
<version>2.3.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
<artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
<version>2.3.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
<artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
<version>3.4</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<mainClass>com.apiDemo.ApiApplication</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Answer 1

Your groupId and artifactId in the parent, are reversed:
Should be:
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/>
</parent>
Instead of
<parent>
<groupId>spring-boot-starter-parent</groupId>
<artifactId>org.springframework.boot</artifactId>
<version>1.2.5.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/>
</parent>