Did you by any chance install using apt-get? I've seen a number of cases where doing so leads to errors like this. Try installing manually from the website.
On Oct 24, 2013, at 12:31 AM, gunrock seenu <gunrockse...@gmail.com> wrote: > ~/M101J$ mvn --version > Apache Maven 3.0.4 > Maven home: /usr/share/maven > Java version: 1.7.0_40, vendor: Oracle Corporation > Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre > Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 > OS name: "linux", version: "3.8.0-31-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix" > > > strange thing I observed is when I went on the command line and invoke mvn > compile , it failed with > > ~/M101J/src/main/java/com/tengen/HelloWorldSparkStyle.java:[19,10] error: > annotations are not supported in -source 1.3 > > made me think what if I generated the project from intellij - this time it > worked. I had previously generated the project directly on command line and > imported it into intelliJ and that seem to be the reason why it was not > working well. > > thank you all for your pointers. this one stumps me. ----------------- Author, Getting Started with Apache Maven <http://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-apache-maven/video> Come read my webnovel, Take a Lemon <http://www.takealemon.com>, and listen to the Misfile radio play <http://www.fuzzyfacetheater.com/misfile/>!
