[NETBEANS-353] Support maven.compiler.release in pom.xml

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 9.0
• Fix Version/s: 9.0
• Component/s: projects - Maven
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Thomas Zimmermann
• Created: 03/Feb/18 22:06
• Updated: 26/Feb/18 21:24
• Resolved: 26/Feb/18 21:24

Description

I am using incubator-netbeans-release-205-on-20180202.

Java 9 added the --release flag to javac, the maven-compiler-plugin already supports this: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/compile-mojo.html#release

Right now, NetBeans uses maven.compiler.source (and possibly maven.compiler.target ?) to determine the source level in the Editor. It would be nice to have support for maven.compiler.release as well, since that now seems to be the preferred way to specify the source level going forward.

I tried this new flag because I saw Robert Scholte recommending it: https://youtu.be/tHTmFlVAyAc?t=1195

Attached is a trivial maven project that shows errors in NetBeans but compiles fine when invoking maven directly.

 

P.S.: I also want to thank you all for your work on NetBeans, it's very stable and intuitive to get started with. I'm not a power user, but I haven't encountered any issues with the snapshot version so far.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #408