Hi, More of an Ant user, I tried configuring the POM file after downloading http "core" (haven't tried "client" yet) to compile to Java 1.6, for a more recent classfile format (it's slightly more efficient).
I tried to follow advice here: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/examples/set-compiler-source-and-target.html ...but couldn't see any references to maven-compiler-plugin in any of the pom.xml files (including those in subdirectories). There seems to be some magic going on, as I tried compiling anyway, and after inspecting the generated classes in the generated jars ("mvn install" was successful), it appears that the output classfile version is 49 (as in Java 5)... I checked as follows: javap -v org.apache.http.util.VersionInfo I said "magic", because I'm using Mac OS X 10.8 from 2012 with only Java 6, 7, and 8 installed... I'm curious to know how Java 5 is specified and used for compilation, and would like to compile with the most recent "javac" version possible. Thanks, Christopher
