Why Maven project is tied to J2SE-1.5 by default?

Question

If I create default empty based on no archetype Maven project in Eclipse, it will be based on J2SE-1.5.

Answer 1

@axtavt is right, add source level configuration to your project. But do not configure maven-compiler-plugin, simply put this properties into pom.xml.

 
  1.7 
  1.7 

After this refresh maven configuration in Eclipse.