Hi,
Your are probably missing
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
Basically you are using the 1.7 compiler to compile java5 source code
to java 5 byte code (1.5 is the default value for source/target IIRC)
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 5:11 PM, jeff_gaer <jeff_g...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am building with jdk 1.7 but getting an compiler error that suggests mvn
> is
> using the 1.5 jdk ( which is not installed).
>
> error: multi-catch statement is not supported in -source 1.5
>
> Here is my environment
>
> Maven home: /opt/apache-maven-3.0.4
> Java version: 1.7.0_25, vendor: Oracle Corporation
> Java home: /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_25/jre
> Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
> OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.18-274.el5", arch: "i386", family: "unix"
>
> I have even tried specifically specifying the JDK version in the compile
> plugin
>
> <plugins>
> <plugin>
> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
> <version>3.2</version>
> <configuration>
> <verbose>true</verbose>
> <fork>true</fork>
> <executable>${JAVA_HOME}/bin/javac</executable>
> <compilerVersion>1.7</compilerVersion>
> </configuration>
> </plugin>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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