Why is my maven-compiler-plugin out of date ?

2015-08-05 Thread sreyan32
I downloaded the latest version of Maven from their site and am using it in Eclipse. But it seems my maven-compiler-plugin is out of date ie. version 3.1 while according to this page the most recent version is 3.3. First of all if I am using the latest version of maven why do I have to use an

Why is my maven-compiler-plugin out of date ?

2015-08-05 Thread sreyan32
I downloaded the latest version of Maven from their site and am using it in Eclipse. But it seems my maven-compiler-plugin is out of date ie. version 3.1 while according to this page the most recent version is 3.3. First of all if I am using the latest version of maven why do I have to use an

Re: Why is my maven-compiler-plugin out of date ?

2015-08-05 Thread Ron Wheeler
Can you see where the compiler plugin is added to your build? Parent pom, project pom Does this help. https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Plugin_Management On 05/08/2015 10:58 AM, sreya...@yahoo.com.INVALID wrote: I downloaded the latest version of Maven from their site and am using it in

Re: Why is my maven-compiler-plugin out of date ?

2015-08-05 Thread Stuart McCulloch
If you don’t configure a specific version in your pom for one of the standard plugins, Maven will use the version specified in the default lifecycle bindings. For example Maven 3.3.3, defaults to maven-compiler-plugin 3.1: