Thanks for the help so far.I went to the Oracle site, downloaded java 8 and installed it. My new Maven Output$mvn -versionI deleted my .M2 folder and tried again to build the package Unfortunatly I get the same error

We followed these instructions to install the JDKhttps://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-java-with-apt-get-on-ubuntu-16-04

That's a great point, however, I am not finding any specific documentation for where that should point to.which javac returnswhich cannot be set as $JAVA_HOME