> The maven-compiler-plugin allows one to set the maven.compiler.target
> property in the POM, the value of which is in turn passed as the -target
> argument to the Java compiler. I would like to be able to set this
> maven.compiler.target on the command-line instead, as follows:
> 
> mvn clean compile -Dmaven.compiler.target=1.5
> 
> However, when I try this it seems to have no effect on the compiled class
> files. Furthermore, when I set -Dmaven.compiler.target to some illegal
> value the build still succeeds and the class files still have the same minor
> and major version numbers (as shown by javap). All of this leads me to
> believe that the -Dmaven.compiler.target property being passed on the
> command-line is being ignored.
> 
> Is there any way to set the value of the -target compiler parameter from
> the mvn command-line?

Did you try to see what is really happening with -X?

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