stop IntelliJ IDEA to switch java language level every time the pom is reloaded (or change the default project language level)

Question

Using IntelliJ 12, I have a java project and I use maven with a pom.xml. My project is using java8, but it seems the default project language level has been set to 6 while i

Answer 1

I struggled a lot with this problem, due to building microservices with Dropwizard. Eventually I found out that I had my build properties in the wrong pom file (The main service's pom.xml).

So, even though the other packages are more like libraries, I were not able to use the Java 8 syntax.

When I refactored the build plugin into the "global" .pom.xml" file, all child containers were able to use the new syntax.

May help someone having issues with multi-container projects