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

I had this problem. In my case the tag & nested tags Jorge Campos mentions above were in the wrong place. If I put them between the and tags in the pom.xml file, then this behaviour stopped.

That can be picked up in Eclipse if validation of these files is switched on.