Let us say we are running Maven using JDK 7 but our project requires the sources to be compiled using JDK 8. Essentially, we want to use a JDK for compilation that is different from the JDK running Maven.
In this case, we can specify the compiler we want to use to Maven.
Use the following steps to change the compiler used by the Maven Compiler plugin:
Open the command prompt.
Define a Maven property to store the location details for Java 8:
<properties> <JAVA8.HOME>C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_20</JAVA8.HOME> </properties>
Add the following plugin configuration to the Maven project:
<plugins> <plugin> <groupId...