JRE1.8.0: Syntax error, parameterized types are only available if source level is 1.5

Created Sep 19, 2018 Edited Sep 19, 2018

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I get the error

Syntax error, parameterized types are only available if source level is 1.5

Upon checking, I could see that the JRE installed on my machine is JRE1.8.0.
Can someone suggest what can be done here to resolve this?

java-8 eclipse