Maven can't compile java 1.8

Question

I\'m trying to use maven to build a jar but I keep getting the error

ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile 
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Answer 1

As a MacOS user, open a Terminal and create or edit a file .bash_profile (in the directory of your user home) and put the following snippet there:

export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8`

Save that file and reopen a Terminal instance. If you execute export as a command there, you should see a valid JAVA_HOME with the location of your JDK 8 installation. Restart your IDE afterwards and maven should be able to build you nice java target 1.8 code.