Robert Scholte created MNG-5755:
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Summary: Access toolchains without maven-toolchain-plugin
Key: MNG-5755
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5755
Project: Maven
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Toolchains
Affects Versions: 3.2.5
Reporter: Robert Scholte
The original idea of toolchains was to have the same tool being used by
different plugins within the same project.
This seems like a good approach, but there are several cases where you want
more control over the tool to choose, for instance:
* the maven-compiler-plugin should use the lowest (preferably matching) jdk
version to ensure proper bytecode for the classes
* the maven-surefire-plugin might need a higher version due to requirements of
the testing frameworks
* some code-generators require a more recent JDK compared to the code they're
actually producing.
* the look-and-feel of javadoc has changed per JDK. If you like the latest, you
should be able to use it.
* In case of the maven-invoker-plugin you should be able to test all
combinations of JDK and Maven as runtime environment.
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