I changed the used Java version for the Jenkins job from 1.5 to 1.6 because the last few builds failed due a UnsupportedClassVersion error.
https://builds.apache.org/job/Ant_BuildFromPOMs This was easier than searching which of the jars was 1.6+ based ;) /home/jenkins/tools/java/latest1.6/bin/java -Xmx2g -Xms256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -cp /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/maven3-agent.jar:/home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/too ls/hudson.tasks.Maven_MavenInstallation/Maven_3.0.5/boot/plexus-classworlds- 2.4.jar org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/tools/hudson.tasks.Maven_MavenInstallation/Maven _3.0.5 /x1/jenkins/jenkins-slave/slave.jar /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/maven3-interceptor.jar /home/jenkins/jenkins-slave/maven3-interceptor-commons.jar 47896 Jan