Why Maven uses JDK 1.6 but my java -version is 1.7

Question

I\'m new to maven, and also to MacOS.

I have setup maven in my terminal, and when getting the version settings (using mvn -v) it seems it uses JDK 1.6,

Answer 1

For Eclipse Users. If you have a Run Configuration that does clean package for example.

In the Run Configuration panel there is a JRE tab where you can specify against which runtime it should run. Note that this configuration overrides whatever is in the pom.xml.