Thanks for the explanation. That's all a bit more involved than I thought.
Jane Young wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> There was a lengthy discussion about this back in March. See:
> http://is.gd/2PsH3
>
> Kedar created a table listing the v3 modules that require Java 5
> Runtime:
> http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=ListOfV3ModulesSupportingJava5Runtime
>
> As you can see the table is empty, so I assume the modules in v3 do
> not require Java 5 Runtime thus it's safe to change the javac option
> in master-pom/pom.xml to 1.6. However, changing this will only impact
> modules that have <packaging>jar</packaging> set in the pom.xml (e.g.
> v3/javaee-api/javax.annotation/).
>
> Note that not all the modules in v3 are compiled with
> "maven-compiler-plugin". The modules that have
> <packaging>hk2-jar</packaging> set in the pom.xml are actually
> compiled with "hk2-maven-plugin". See:
> https://hk2.dev.java.net/hk2-maven-plugin/hk2-compile-mojo.html. The
> goal "hk2-compile" invokes APT and it explicitly sets the -source
> option to 1.5. See:
> http://www.koders.com/java/fid3D794B0048CC3D1048464E5FA8A668E2842BC3D9.aspx?s=PlexusJavaService
>
> I do not know the reasons why APT is forced to 1.5.
> Keep in mind that majority of the v3 modules are hk2-jar.
> HTH,
> Jane
>
>
> Justin Lee wrote:
>> Any reason my master-pom/pom.xml still lists 1.5 as the compiler
>> options? We require a 1.6 VM to build and yet we output 1.5
>> bytecode? Doesn't make sense to me. Am I missing something?
>>
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