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Bug 350353

Summary:	maven-compiler-plugin ignores source and target config when values are 5 or 6
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Matthew Sandoz <matthew_sandoz>
Component:	m2e	Assignee:	Project Inbox <m2e.core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	igor
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows Vista
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Description Matthew Sandoz

2011-06-25 09:56:58 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110615-0604

Source or target version configuration does not recognize 5 or 6. JRE 1.4 runtime libraries are referenced in the eclipse project. Switching version to 1.5 or 1.6 solves the problem but this is not documented and is extremely confusing, and could cause someone who is less familiar with Eclipse to start trying to change the classpaths manually, providing a poor user experience.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. import a maven project with source set in maven-compiler plugin to 5 or 6
2. look at the JRE system library setting. It will be JavaSE1.4

Comment 1 Igor Fedorenko

2011-08-03 11:24:04 EDT

Somebody provided a patch under another bugzilla.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 353781 ***

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2021-04-19 13:26:12 EDT

Moved to https://github.com/eclipse-m2e/m2e-core/issues/