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 :

<build>
 <plugins>
  <plugin>
   <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
   <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
   <configuration>
    <source>1.5</source>
    <target>1.5</target>
   </configuration>
  </plugin>
 </plugins>
</build>