> The problem is I cannot figure out the intent of how the sniffer is supposed > to work - in particular if it will even help with my particular problem. As > far as I can tell the Hibernate folks have not set up the necessary > signatures for the sniffer to tell me what I need to know.
You should not need to set up signatures. The community has already done that for you. Just use an artifact under the groupId org.codehaus.mojo.signature and specify the Java version you are looking to target (most likely java15-sun in your case). > When generating signatures, are we supposed to create a separate Maven > project/artifact for the signature? For example I don't believe this is something you need to worry about. Just use the existing signatures. Why would you be generating signatures anyway? > It is not that I need 1.6 features - it is that somewhere I am pulling in a > JAR file via Maven that has version 50 class files from Java 6 and the Java > 5 run time can only recognize version 49 or earlier. I am trying to pin down > which JAR file exactly, and then determine if there is an earlier version of > the artifact that has version 49 class files. If you set up the plugin properly, it should check all of YOUR code to ensure it only uses JDK5 APIs. It will not help with code in your dependencies (that I am aware of at least). If you want to check the Hibernate artifacts (jars), you should probably just use the Animal Sniffer ant tasks and write a little Ant to compare each Hibernate jar against the jdk15 signature: http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer-ant-tasks/examples/checking-signatures.html Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
