> > > Once we have the toolchains fully in place and allow easy cross-compiling > independently of the JDK running Maven, there seems to be no reason why > the > build tool shouldn't be run with a higher Java than the minimum JRE for > the > project under build. > This is allready not a limitation : I'm building java 1.3 projects using maven 2 running on JDK 6. I simply use the compiler target=13 and bootclasspath to point to JRE1.3 rt.jar. The toolchain would make this even simplier as the JRE1.3 path has to be set by developers in settings.xml using a non-standard property.
Nicolas.
