diff --git a/app/server/appsmith-plugins/rapidApiPlugin/pom.xml b/app/server/appsmith-plugins/rapidApiPlugin/pom.xml
index 1ee8b7b3fd..7a98a62c40 100644
--- a/app/server/appsmith-plugins/rapidApiPlugin/pom.xml
+++ b/app/server/appsmith-plugins/rapidApiPlugin/pom.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <java.version>11</java.version>
         <maven.compiler.source>${java.version}</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>${java.version}</maven.compiler.target>
         <plugin.id>rapidapi-plugin</plugin.id>