[SUREFIRE-1105] Surefire build should check Java 1.5 API signatures with JDK version > 5

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.17
• Fix Version/s: 2.18
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Plugin
• Assignee: Tibor Digana
• Reporter: Tibor Digana
• Created: 11/Oct/14 08:57
• Updated: 12/Oct/14 03:08
• Resolved: 12/Oct/14 03:08

Description

The Maven Surefire project should use animal-sniffer-maven-plugin to check Java 1.5 API signatures.

It has advantages where JDK 8 speeds up the build, however the Java classes are properly compiled to *.class 1.5.

It is going to fix the Jenkins build with currently minimal JDK version 1.5:
[Maven Surefire] $ /opt/jdk/jdk1.5.0_22/bin/java -Xmx1196m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file

<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>animal-sniffer-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>signature-check</id>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<signature>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo.signature</groupId>
<artifactId>java15</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</signature>
</configuration>
</plugin>