Generics are not supported in -source 1.3 error in Maven Project

When compiling via maven project, you may have encountered following error:

generics are not supported in -source 1.3 error in Maven Project. use -source 5 or higher to enable generics.

Annotation is not allowed in -source 1.3 use -source 5 or higher to enable annotation.

To solve this you must add the below lines at your pom.xml :

    
        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-compiler-plugin
            
                1.5</source>
                1.5