When I run FindBugs on my project via Maven, I get lots of these:
Can't use annotations when running in JDK 1.4 mode!
How do I fix that? Couldn't find anything in the manual.
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A:
Make sure your Maven build plugin is compiling to 1.5, and not 1.4.
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.5</source>
<target>1.5</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Nimlhug
2010-07-14 15:47:49
If these options were not set, the build would fail way before the FindBugs plugin is called (so yes, I'm 100% confident that I create Java 5 bytecode).
Aaron Digulla
2010-07-14 15:49:55
A:
I believe you are missing the targetJdk element in the plugin configuration, like in below snippet.
<reporting>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0.1</version>
<configuration>
<targetJdk>1.5</targetJdk>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</reporting>
Vineet Reynolds
2010-07-14 18:47:55
Unfortunately, this doesn't work. targetJdk is supported for the PMD plugin but not for FindBugs :-(
Aaron Digulla
2010-07-15 10:23:35
This actually works but there are a couple of caveats: 1. Specifying the plugin version in a pluginManagement section doesn't work. 2. The option works despite the fact that it's not mentioned anywhere: Not in the docs, not by mvn help:describe ... odd.
Aaron Digulla
2010-07-15 13:39:07