It helped me. Just add it in your pom.xml.
By default maven compiler plugin uses Java 1.5 or 1.6, you have to redefine it in your pom.xml.
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>