Craig McClanahan <craigmcc <at> apache.org> writes: > >> On 2/21/06, Martin <mjdenham <at> gmail.com> wrote: >> I have tried this already, but unfortunately it does not work (although I am >> not experienced with maven).I changed the source and target tags in >> adf-faces/pom.xml as below: >> >> <source>1.5</source> >> <target>1.4</target> >> but get the error: [INFO] Compilation failure Failure executing javac, >> but >> could not parse the error: javac: source release 1.5 requires target release 1.5 > > That is not a Maven issue ... it is a Java restriction. If you want to say > target=1.4, then you cannot say source=1.5 because the new source format > requires features in the class format that were not present in the 1.4 > version. > > > Regards > > Craig Thanks for the responses and clarifications. This means there is no way to use the Apache ADF Faces as it stands on JDK 1.4.
Maybe the JDK 1.5 specific code could be edited to make it compatible with JDK 1.4. I don't think this would be too hard as the oracle ea19 version was compatible with JDK 1.4.
