Eclipse resets Java compiler compliance level to 1.7 with every restart

Question

Eclipse resets the compiler compliance level to 1.7 every time I restart. It kinda bothers a lot for code with large size as for every compiler compliance level change eclipse needs a fresh build

I have JDK 8 installed and have everything set to 1.8 in eclipse and project preference files.

Answer 1

If you are using maven, try to put this on your pom.xml

<properties> <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target> <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source> </properties>