Maven - use -source 5 or higher to enable… while building the project

Question

I downloaded one project from our svn and now I am trying to build this using Maven (mvn clean install... my maven is Apache Maven 3.0.4). Unfortunately, when I try to build

Answer 1

You must specify the source configuration parameter to the maven-compiler-plugin like this:

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
      <source>1.5</source>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>

See also Setting the -source and -target of the Java Compiler in the maven documentation for further details.