Java Version Maven Issue

Question

I have a Java Project. My System's Java version is 1.8 My Maven Version is pointed to 1.8 Java version

Now i intentionally added a nio package in my project. I ran the maven clean install before changing the pom.xml. Added below snippet

<properties>
    <maven.compiler.target>1.5</maven.compiler.target>
    <maven.compiler.source>1.5</maven.compiler.source>
</properties

I expected the program to fail. But it was successful. Can anyone tell the reason why. i have also tried the snippet under plugin tag under build but to no avail. Please help

Answer 1

Java nio package exists in previous versions (like 1.5). Did you import one of the existins classes at that time? Perhaps you meant NIO.2?

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