diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2b306b367..2da36fb25 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                 <configuration>
-                    <source>1.6</source>
-                    <target>1.6</target>
+                    <source>1.7</source>
+                    <target>1.7</target>
                     <encoding>ISO-8859-1</encoding>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/owasp/webgoat/plugins/PluginExtractor.java b/src/main/java/org/owasp/webgoat/plugins/PluginExtractor.java
index abcf30350..2cf8fdb9a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/owasp/webgoat/plugins/PluginExtractor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/owasp/webgoat/plugins/PluginExtractor.java
@@ -36,9 +36,7 @@ public class PluginExtractor {
     }
 
     public void extract() {
-        FileSystem zip = null;
-        try {
-            zip = createZipFileSystem();
+        try (FileSystem zip = createZipFileSystem()) {
             final Path root = zip.getPath("/");
             baseDirectory = Paths.get(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"), DIRECTORY);
             Files.walkFileTree(root, new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {
@@ -55,8 +53,6 @@ public class PluginExtractor {
             });
         } catch (IOException io) {
             logger.error(String.format("Unable to extract: %s", pluginArchive.getFileName()), io);
-        } finally {
-            closeZipFileSystem(zip);
         }
     }