title: Netbeans Maven Error: javac: invalid target release: 1.7
body: <p>I am trying to build an existing maven project on a fresh install of the latest netbeans but am getting the following error, any help is much appreciated:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) on project com.rory.ngp.test: Compilation failure
  Failure executing javac, but could not parse the error:
  javac: invalid target release: 1.7
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I think it has something to do with paths but am not sure exactly. Here is the contents of my <code>/usr/lib/jvm directory;</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>bash-4.1$ pwd
  /usr/lib/jvm
  bash-4.1$ ls   
  java                               java-openjdk   jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64
  java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0             jre            jre-gcj
  java-1.6.0                         jre-1.5.0      jre-openjdk
  java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64  jre-1.5.0-gcj
  java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64          jre-1.6.0
  </code></pre>