Set default java compliance level for Maven projects in Eclipse

Question

The default compliance level for Maven is 1.5 and every time that I update a maven project in Eclipse it sets back the compliance level from 1.6 to 1.5 which is really annoy

Answer 1

Another way (if you do not have already compiler plugin defined) is to set just these properties in your pom file:

  1.8
  1.8

Details: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/examples/set-compiler-source-and-target.html