Maven - Use JDK 7 to Compile for JVM 5

Question

I\'ve been trying to get this to work for a while now but no luck yet.

I want to run with JAVA_HOME pointing to JDK7 but I want to compile a project for

Answer 1

You can use the bootclasspath configuration option on the maven-compiler-plugin if needed:

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You can read more about it here. See the note under the example.