2544960 - Deployment fails due to corrupt tc~esi~uddi~sr~proxy~ejbm_EJB/META-INF.zip

When one tries to execute an upgrade or deploy EDEN model of the Java stack, in the log files the following call stack exception chain is visible:

com.sap.engine.services.deploy.exceptions.ServerDeploymentException: Exception while [downloading files of application sap.com/tc~esi~uddi~sr~proxy~ear].
        at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.editor.impl.second.DIReaderImpl2.bootstrapApp(DIReaderImpl2.java:621)
        at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.CMigrationInvoker.migrateSingleApplication(CMigrationInvoker.java:388)
        at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.CMigrationInvoker.performAppMigration(CMigrationInvoker.java:329)
        at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.CMigrationInvoker.performAppMigration(CMigrationInvoker.java:320)
  ...
Caused by: com.sap.engine.interfaces.webservices.server.deploy.WSDeploymentException: Exception occurred during web services deployment. Unable to extract web services deployment data for archive tc~esi~uddi~sr~proxy~ejbm_EJB, application sap.com/tc~esi~uddi~sr~proxy~ear.
        at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.server.deploy.DownloadApplicationFilesProcess.extractMetaInfZip(DownloadApplicationFilesProcess.java:65)
        at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.server.deploy.DownloadApplicationFilesProcess.process(DownloadApplicationFilesProcess.java:20)
        at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.server.deploy.WebServicesDeployManager.downloadApplicationFiles(WebServicesDeployManager.java:708)
        at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.utils.container.ContainerWrapper.downloadApplicationFiles(ContainerWrapper.java:495)
        at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.editor.impl.second.DIReaderImpl2.bootstrapApp(DIReaderImpl2.java:599)
        ... 12 more
Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: Open failed for '/usr/sap/<SID>/<AS-JAVA-instance>/j2ee/cluster/apps/sap.com/tc~esi~uddi~sr~proxy~ear/webservices_container/tc~esi~uddi~sr~proxy~ejbm_EJB/META-INF.zip' with fd 273 returning message 'couldn't find 'END' tag.' and errno 0 after trying cache.
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:252)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:179)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:166)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:103)
        at com.sap.engine.lib.jar.JarExtractor.extractJar(JarExtractor.java:96)
        at com.sap.engine.services.webservices.server.deploy.DownloadApplicationFilesProcess.extractMetaInfZip(DownloadApplicationFilesProcess.java:61)
        ... 16 more

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