As far as I remember is at least one piece of code in our JSF-extensions that 
uses a JDK6 call, but it won't even compile when the JDK5 compatibility option 
is set.
And I don't know if we can find an easy workaround for that.

On the other hand: What's wrong with switching to JDK6 now. It's mature enough 
and a long time around. 
We don't need to stick to JDK5 forever, do we?
The core will still build and run with JDK5.

Regards
Rainer

> from: Francis De Brabandere [mailto:[email protected]]
> to: [email protected]
> re: re: Can not build with jdk5 any more
> 
> There's a difference in building with and building for. A jdk6 empire-db buid
> built for java 5 runtime can contain java 6 api calls that will fail at 
> runtime. As
> far as I know there is no way to use 2 sdks to do a single maven build...
> There are however plugins that can check for these issues but still a user
> would need jdk6 to build our project. Does jsf2 really need jdk6?
> 
> F
> On Jul 24, 2012 9:03 PM, "Rainer Döbele" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I am not sure about your question.
> > We're only building the JSF classes with JDK6, and the rest with JDK5.
> >
> > Can't we keep it like this?
> >
> > Regards
> > Rainer
> >
> >
> > > from: Francis De Brabandere [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > to: [email protected]
> > > re: Can not build with jdk5 any more
> > >
> > > The JSF extension needs jdk6.
> > >
> > > Should we drop jdk5 building/support? I normally build all releases
> > > with jdk5 to be sure there are no jdk6-7 api calls.
> > >
> > > <properties>
> > >               <maven.compile.source>1.6</maven.compile.source>
> > >               <maven.compile.target>1.6</maven.compile.target>
> > > </properties>
> > >
> > > INFO] Compiling 42 source files to
> > > /home/francisdb/workspace/empire-db-parent/empire-db-
> > > jsf2/target/classes
> > > [INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
> > > [ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :
> > > [INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
> > > [ERROR] Failure executing javac, but could not parse the error:
> > > javac: invalid flag: -s
> > >
> > > F
> >

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