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

make sure java home path is correct. for my case, java home path is wrong in pom file.

  
        /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_45/bin/javac
  




              
                org.apache.maven.plugins
                        maven-compiler-plugin
                        3.5.1
                
                      true
                      true
                      ${java.home}
                   1.8
                   1.8
                   1.8