newbie: blueprint tutorial with Java 1.7?

2013-11-05 Thread rolf
What is the best way to do the blueprint tutorial, leaving Java 1.7 as my (main) Java environment? doing mvn clean install led to [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile (default-compile) on project org.apache.aries.testsupport.unit:

Aries installation requires Java 1.5?

2013-11-05 Thread rolf
The installation procedure http://aries.apache.org/development/buildingaries.html does not list a Prereqs for a specific Java version or vendor. I do appriciate that. However, wenn I follow the instructions I got errors indication that -source=1.5 is required. See

Re: Aries installation requires Java 1.5?

2013-11-05 Thread Timothy Ward
Hi Rolf, In Java 7 the way in which javac reports warnings changed. This broke projects using older versions of the maven compiler plugin (like Aries). The errors are actually warnings, and go away when using a newer maven compiler plugin. There's not much we can do about existing released