Java version automatically change to java 1.5 after maven update

Question

I am using eclipse as IDE. When I right click on the project and then click maven update my java version change to 1.5. Here is what I did so far, I followed all the steps l

Answer 1

Open your pom.xml file and add the following lines on it:

   1.8
   1.8

Where 1.8 is the java version of your current JDK/JRE. Another way of doing this is adding a with the maven-compile-plugin as

  
    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-compiler-plugin
    3.2 
    
      1.8
      1.8
    
  

EDIT

If you are looking for a way to make it work with Java versions 9+ please take a look at @JDelorean's answer down here and don't forget to give him an upvote as well :)