Encountering Problem while setting up INTELLIJ IDE

If you want to get the the Spring Boot Application in Java 8 then in that particular condition , try adding the following thing in the POM.xml in case you are trying to build the project with Java 8 .

1. Ah, I see what you’re looking at! This snippet is from a Maven pom.xml file, and it defines a repository from which Maven can download dependencies. Let me break it down step by step:

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>central</id>
        <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
    </repository>
<repositories>

2.   <parent>
         <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
         <version>2.0.0.RELEASE</version>
         <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
     </parent>
   

DownGrade this to the version that you want and then click on the smal icon on the top right corner , things should work fine , in that case .