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

Worked by adding this in pom.xml:

        UTF-8
        1.8
        1.8

Even you have SDK 13 or 14.