Maven build Compilation error : Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) on project Maven

Question

I have a maven project forked and cloned from a git repo onto my eclipse. It is build on Java 8. The first thing i do is perform a

mvn clean install
         


        

Answer 1

In my case, it was caused from an incompatibility with OpenJDK 9 (which I haven't investigated).

If you don't need JDK 9, a temporary work-around would be to purge it from your machine:

sudo apt-get remove --purge openjdk-9-jdk openjdk-9-jre 
sudo apt-get remove --purge openjdk-9-jdk-headless openjdk-9-jre-headless