Maven plugin version in pom (seemingly) ignored

Question

I\'m noticing that Maven output is reporting plugin version numbers different than what I\'m specifying in the pom file.

For example, in my pom I specify the compiler pl

Answer 1

The best thing to define such thing is to use pluginManagement like this:

  ...
  
    ...
    
      
        
          org.apache.maven.plugins
          maven-compiler-plugin
          3.1
        
      
    
    ...
  

This should solve you problem, but I'm not 100% sure, cause i don't have the full pom file.