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

The below pom.xml configuration is making the build successful and make sure project buildpath JRE System library should point to Java8.

org.apache.maven.pluginsmaven-compiler-plugin3.7.0 1.81.8