The maven-compiler-plugin allows one to set the maven.compiler.target property in the POM, the value of which is in turn passed as the -target argument to the Java compiler. I would like to be able to set this maven.compiler.target on the command-line instead, as follows:
mvn clean compile -Dmaven.compiler.target=1.5 However, when I try this it seems to have no effect on the compiled class files. Furthermore, when I set -Dmaven.compiler.target to some illegal value the build still succeeds and the class files still have the same minor and major version numbers (as shown by javap). All of this leads me to believe that the -Dmaven.compiler.target property being passed on the command-line is being ignored. Is there any way to set the value of the -target compiler parameter from the mvn command-line? -- Jason Voegele Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have much of anything to do with it.
