Eclipse + Maven: force Execution Environment “JavaSE-1.6” instead of fixed JDK

Question

I\'m using Eclipse as IDE and Maven outside of it to keep all dependencies up to date and update the Eclipse-project as such. In Eclipse I usually specify the JRE system lib

Answer 1

Go into Window > Preferences > Java > Installed JREs > Execution Environments

Select JavaSE-1.6, click the checkbox on the right that should indicate "perfect match"

then use "update project configuration" from the maven menu.