I am on the verge of releasing a project but it seem JAVA_HOME is been inconsistent. Maybe it\'s been overridden somewhere else? I am using ubuntu 14.04 and I have openjdk-7, ja
Creating a file .mavenrc on my home folder and adding the code below solved the problem for me. (Ubuntu 14.10, Maven 3.2.1)
.mavenrc
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle