Maven “build path specifies execution environment J2SE-1.5”, even though I changed it to 1.7

Question

In Eclipse Juno, I installed the latest m2e plugin (1.2.20120903-1050). In preferences, I have added jdk1.7.0_11 in Java -> Installed JREs -> Add, and then specified the lo

Answer 1

All of the answers above may work for the time being but whenever you run maven on the command line or Maven → Update project… the JDK will be reset, this was also the question as I understand it.

To fix this for good add the following code to your pom file. Remember to do a Maven → Update project… afterwards or mvn clean compile at the command line.

    
        
            
                org.apache.maven.plugins
                maven-compiler-plugin
                3.1
                
                    1.7
                    1.7