title: Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin
body: <p>I'm trying compile using <code>mvn install</code> but I'm getting this error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile (default-compile) on project test: Compilation failure: Compilation failure:</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>pom.xml file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;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"&gt;
    &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
  
    &lt;groupId&gt;com.mycompany&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;test&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;1.0-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;packaging&gt;jar&lt;/packaging&gt;
  
    &lt;name&gt;test&lt;/name&gt;
    &lt;url&gt;http://maven.apache.org&lt;/url&gt;
  
    &lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;
    &lt;/properties&gt;
  
  &lt;build&gt;
    &lt;plugins&gt;
      &lt;plugin&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-assembly-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;configuration&gt;
          &lt;descriptorRefs&gt;
            &lt;descriptorRef&gt;jar-with-dependencies&lt;/descriptorRef&gt;
          &lt;/descriptorRefs&gt;
          &lt;archive&gt;
            &lt;manifest&gt;
              &lt;mainClass&gt;com.mycompany.test.App&lt;/mainClass&gt;
            &lt;/manifest&gt;
          &lt;/archive&gt;
        &lt;/configuration&gt;
      &lt;/plugin&gt;
    &lt;/plugins&gt;
  &lt;/build&gt;
  
    &lt;dependencies&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;mysql&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;mysql-connector-java&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;5.1.25&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;junit&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;junit&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;3.8.1&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
    &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How to fix it? </p>