如何编译不同版本的Maven Web项目并在不同版本中运行

Question

I have created a maven web project in eclipse. I want to compile it in jdk 1.6 and have its run time environment as 1.8.I have tomcat as the web container to run the project. For compiling I am aware of the Compliance level option in the project settings. Is it the correct way to go about the compile time requirement? And what settings do I have to change to make it run on java 1.8?

Answer 1

Use the Maven compiler plugin to set the source and runtime version of jdk & jvm respectively.

<build>
 <pluginManagement>
  <plugins>
   <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>3.7.0</version>
      <configuration>
      <source>1.6</source>
      <target>1.8</target>
      </configuration>
   </plugin>
  <plugins>
<pluginManagement>
<build>