On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 05:31:23PM +0100, sebb wrote:
> On 14 June 2012 02:15, Gilles Sadowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> >> > [...]
> >
> > The following:
> >
> >> >> > I should be able to do all combinations, i.e.:
> >> >> > 1. Compile with javac 1.6 and run with java 1.6
> >> >> > 2. Compile with javac 1.7 and run with java 1.7
> >
> > is achieved by those respective commands:
> >
> > $ JAVA_1_6_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun mvn -X -Pjava-1.6 clean test
> > $ JAVA_1_7_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 mvn -X -Pjava-1.7 clean
> > test
> >
> > IIUC:
> > JAVA_x_y_HOME is used to locate the "javac" executable
>
> Sort of.
>
> > -Pjava-x.y selects the language level
>
> -P selects the profile, which uses the relevant JAVA_1_n_HOME variable
> to locate the relevant Java installation.
> These variable were introduced specifically to support the java-x.y profiles.
The profile also sets "commons.compiler.compilerVersion", and I inferred
that this would define which version of the language is accepted by the
compiler. Is that correct?
>
> > JAVA_HOME has no effect
> >
> > This, however,
> >
> >> >> > 3. Compile with javac 1.6 and run with java 1.7
> >
> > is not so easy. To run the tests with 1.7, one needs
> >
> > $ JAVA_1_6_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun mvn
> > -Dcommons.surefire.java=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin/java -X
> > -Pjava-1.6 clean test
>
> >> > [...]
> >
> > Much to my surprise, this
> >
> > $ JAVA_1_7_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 mvn
> > -Dcommons.surefire.java=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java -X -Pjava-1.7
> > clean test
> >
> > (i.e. using java 1.6 to run classes compiled with javac 1.7) also works! Is
> > that expected? [I thought I'd get the "incompatible major.minor version"
> > exception.]
>
> Unless you are using an updated version of the parent pom, the profile
> java-1.7 does not exist - this should report an error, but it might
> get lost in the -X output - so the compilation will use your default
> java compiler.
Excerpt (with line numbers) of "commons-parent-24.pom":
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858 <profile>
859 <id>java-1.7</id>
860 <properties>
861 <commons.compiler.fork>true</commons.compiler.fork>
862
<commons.compiler.compilerVersion>1.7</commons.compiler.compilerVersion>
863
<commons.compiler.javac>${JAVA_1_7_HOME}/bin/javac</commons.compiler.javac>
864
<commons.surefire.java>${JAVA_1_7_HOME}/bin/java</commons.surefire.java>
865 </properties>
866 </profile>
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Regards,
Gilles
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