Eric: I'm new to Maven, so I'm not if this will be useful...
Maybe you should try using fork=true and then configure the maven.compiler.executable property to use an actual 1.3.x JDK compiler. We've had to take this route in the past (outside of Maven) to work around a bug in the old 1.3.1 Webshere JVM. HTH Dave. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Giguère [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 11:04 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: Compiling with jars that have classes in the default package, jdk1.4.2 Hi all Got a small issue compiling a project. This is for JDK 1.3. This guy uses a jar that have many classes in the default package. But, running with JDK 1.4.2 here, i always get a compiling error stating that a '.' is expected in the import statement. I've set the 2 properties of the java plugin: maven.compile.target=1.3 maven.compile.source=1.3 But no use, I always get my compiling error. Any idea on how to get rid of this error? Thx a lot Eric.