source 1.3 (use -source 5 or higher to enable generics)

Question

I am using Maven 2.x, Atlassian Bamboo with maven plugin my build jdk configuration is set to 1.6 and i don't have any jdk version enforced setting in pom.xml file.

When i compile project in my IDE it works fine but when i compile in bamboo it gives me following error.

I have already check my configured jdk version in task is 1.6 and i also tried to enforced jdk version from maven plugin in pom but didn't work as well. someone of you guys may have idea whats going on here ?

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Compilation failure

in -source 1.3
(use -source 5 or higher to enable generics)
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[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch

Husbandry

Answer 1

Add the below properties to your pom.xml.

<properties>
    <maven.compiler.target>1.6</maven.compiler.target>
    <maven.compiler.source>1.6</maven.compiler.source>
</properties>

Documentation

Funny you asked this question when I faced exactly the same problem last week :) – Documentation

Answer 2

Another way that doesn't involve modifying the pom is to specify the source and target in the command line:

mvn install -Dmaven.compiler.source=1.6 -Dmaven.compiler.target=1.6

Note that this should be avoided generally as the build cannot be guaranteed to be repeatable this way.

Selfdenial