Ant Java task for Java 1.6

Question

Our project uses ant tool to build maven project. We are using java 1.6 and 1.8 for different OS related release. The build works fine for java 1.8 and same is failing when using 1.6 because of versions-maven-plugin which maven downloading is latest and compiled in 1.7.

I tried copying org.codehaus.mojo version plugin of 2.4 in local repository but still maven looking to latest 2.7 version. Is there is way to specify version in ant java task <java classname="org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher" fork="true" dir="@{basedir}" resultproperty="@{resultproperty}" failonerror="true">

Answer 1

You can specify the version of versions-maven-plugin in a pluginManagement section, something like:

<pluginManagement>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.4</version>
    </plugin>       
  </plugins>
</pluginManagement>

Refer to: Maven2: How to be sure Maven build is using a specific plugin version?

Here is the Maven documentation: https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#plugin-management