maven - How do you specify the Java compiler version in a pom.xml file?

Question

I wrote some Maven code in Netbeans that has approximately more than 2000 lines. When I compile it on Netbeans, everything is fine, but if I want to run it on command line, I will get these errors:

generics are not supported in -source 1.3
(use -source 5 or higher to enable generics)
        ArrayList<ArrayList<Integer>> list = new ArrayList<ArrayList<Integer>>();

generics are not supported in -source 1.3
(use -source 5 or higher to enable generics)
        HashSet<Double> resid_List = new HashSet<Double>(Arrays.asList(resid_val));

generics are not supported in -source 1.3
(use -source 5 or higher to enable generics)
        List<Integer> ind_ovlpList = new ArrayList<Integer>(Arrays.asList(ind_ovlp));

generics are not supported in -source 1.3
(use -source 5 or higher to enable generics)
public class ColumnComparator implements Comparator<double[]> {

annotations are not supported in -source 1.3
(use -source 5 or higher to enable annotations)
@Override

I tried to use Java 1.3.1, compiler errors, but I got more errors. I found from other posts that I should modify pom.xml, but I do not know how. Here is my pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
  <artifactId>mavenmain</artifactId>
   <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>

   <name>mavenmain</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>

   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
       <version>3.8.1</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
        <groupId>gov.nist.math</groupId>
        <artifactId>jama</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.2</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>

It would be great if you can help me!

Answer 1

maven-compiler-plugin it's already present in plugins hierarchy dependency in pom.xml. Check in Effective POM.

For short you can use properties like this:

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

I'm using Maven 3.2.5.