diff --git a/scray-cassandra/pom.xml b/scray-cassandra/pom.xml
index 96c0a93ca..a8f0aafd6 100644
--- a/scray-cassandra/pom.xml
+++ b/scray-cassandra/pom.xml
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@
 				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
 				<version>3.2</version>
 				<configuration>
-					<source>1.8</source>
-					<target>1.8</target>
+					<source>1.6</source>
+					<target>1.6</target>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 		</plugins>
diff --git a/scray-client-jdbc/pom.xml b/scray-client-jdbc/pom.xml
index 567216831..f7890d561 100644
--- a/scray-client-jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/scray-client-jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
   </scm>
 
 	<properties>
-		<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
-		<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
+		<maven.compiler.source>1.6</maven.compiler.source>
+		<maven.compiler.target>1.6</maven.compiler.target>
 		<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
 		<scala.suffix>2.10</scala.suffix>
 		<finagle.version>6.15.0</finagle.version>
diff --git a/scray-common/pom.xml b/scray-common/pom.xml
index fd699810e..e4a116239 100644
--- a/scray-common/pom.xml
+++ b/scray-common/pom.xml
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@
 				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
 				<version>3.2</version>
 				<configuration>
-					<source>1.8</source>
-					<target>1.8</target>
+					<source>1.6</source>
+					<target>1.6</target>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 		</plugins>
diff --git a/scray-jdbc/pom.xml b/scray-jdbc/pom.xml
index 280d17149..5e60cf49f 100644
--- a/scray-jdbc/pom.xml
+++ b/scray-jdbc/pom.xml
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@
 				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
 				<version>3.2</version>
 				<configuration>
-					<source>1.8</source>
-					<target>1.8</target>
+					<source>1.6</source>
+					<target>1.6</target>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 		</plugins>
diff --git a/scray-service/pom.xml b/scray-service/pom.xml
index fcaa4bacf..d8bcbe6a9 100644
--- a/scray-service/pom.xml
+++ b/scray-service/pom.xml
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@
 				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
 				<version>2.5.1</version>
 				<configuration>
-					<source>1.8</source>
-					<target>1.8</target>
+					<source>1.6</source>
+					<target>1.6</target>
 					<fork>true</fork>
 					<meminitial>128m</meminitial>
 					<maxmem>512m</maxmem>