I wrote a post about this a while ago. You need to use the 1.6 compiler, but set the target to 1.5 -- this way you can keep @Override annotations, but emit valid 1.5 code anyway. I don't know about Maven (javac), but it definitely works in Eclipse (can be set manually via project properties).
D. On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought we were trying for 1.5 compat after all. If we are, someone > (me) should fix all of these. If not, we should change the compiler > plugin in the POM to say 1.6. > > Eclipse treats this as a fatal compilation error if the setting is '1.5.'. > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Sean <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yes, that's all correct, what's the issue? >> >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Eclipse thinks that the collections code has about 1000 instance of >>> @Override of an INTERFACE method, which is supposed to be invalid in >>> 1.5 and valid in 1.6. >>> >> >
