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maven: (use -source 5 or higher to enable static import declarations)

What do I need to do to get around this error in Maven (there’s more, I just copied the top).

A key message seems to be:

could not parse error message: (use -source 5 or higher to enable
annotations)

but I tried adding -source 5 to the command and it didn’t recognize it. Do I need to edit a configuration file somewhere to state a Java version to use or something along those lines?

Here’s the error:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Compilation failure

C:\SVN-atx-Ingestion\branches\atx-ingestion\src\main\java\com\somecompany\eikon\atx\ingestion\database\atxAtomickosXaDataSource.java:[115,4] error: annotations are not supported in -source 1.3

could not parse error message:   (use -source 5 or higher to enable annotations)
C:\SVN-atx-Ingestion\branches\atx-ingestion\src\main\java\com\somecompany\eikon\atx\ingestion\database\atxAtomickosNonXaDataSource.java:47: error: annotations are not supported in -source 1.3
        @Override
         ^

could not parse error message:   (use -source 5 or higher to enable annotations)
C:\SVN-atx-Ingestion\branches\atx-ingestion\src\main\java\com\somecompany\eikon\atx\ingestion\database\XaDatabase.java:29: error: generics are not supported in -source 1.3
        private final Map<String,atxAtomickosXaDataSource> map =

Answer 1

You need to do something like this I think:

  <build>
    <plugins>
             ...
                        <plugin>
                                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                                <configuration>
                                        <source>1.6</source>
                                        <target>1.6</target>
                                </configuration>
                        </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>