title: Trying to interpret the message from maven-compiler-plugin
body: <p>I am trying to compile a project with JDK 11. In order to decipher the message, I want to know
  what does the string (default-compile) means in this error message?</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.8.1:compile (default-compile) on project nifi-properties: Compilation failure -&gt; [Help 1]
  org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.8.1:compile (default-compile) on project nifi-properties: Compilation failure
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My pm.xml is here </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;modules&gt;
      &lt;module&gt;nifi-properties&lt;/module&gt;
  &lt;/modules&gt;
  &lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;maven.compiler.release&gt;11&lt;/maven.compiler.release&gt;
  &lt;/properties&gt;    
  &lt;build&gt;
      &lt;plugins&gt;
          &lt;plugin&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-compiler-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;3.8.1&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;configuration&gt;
                  &lt;release&gt;11&lt;/release&gt;                    
              &lt;/configuration&gt;
          &lt;/plugin&gt;
      &lt;/plugins&gt;
  &lt;/build&gt; 
  </code></pre>