[ACCUMULO-4383] Configure animal-sniffer-maven-plugin to fail when new unsupported JDK APIs are used

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.6, 1.7.3, 1.8.0
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
• Reporter: Josh Elser
• Created: 21/Jul/16 20:39
• Updated: 22/Jul/16 00:08
• Resolved: 22/Jul/16 00:08

Description

Benson gave us a great little pointer to http://www.mojohaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer-maven-plugin/

We should configure this plugin to run during our build to catch when we accidentally use JDK APIs which only exist in a newer version of Java than what we target for a specific release line.

For example, mid-2016, we have problems with JDK8 APIs slipping into release lines which still need to support JDK7. We had a similar problem when switching from JDK6 to JDK7.