It works internally at our company as we all have build tools (jdk etc) in a standard place. This makes it repeatable and guaranteed not to blow up on a 1.4 environment.
I agree that this could certainly be a problem. Maybe there's a nicer solution with profiles etc? Regards, Richard -----Original Message----- From: Graham Leggett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 March 2008 22:50 To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Best practices for java version? Richard Chamberlain wrote: > If you using java 5 as your JAVA_HOME I would also recommend setting the > executable compiler to use. > > <executable>path.to.jdk\1.4.2\bin\javac.exe</executable> The side effect of this is that you produce code that now only compiles on one person's machine, and that is *very* un-repeatable. Regards, Graham -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
