Have Jenkins build the V2 stack with Java 6 ?

[Etienne Dysli-Metref]

On 28/01/16 21:29, Brent Putman wrote:
> As we've previously discussed, the danger with us developing and
> testing builds with 7 or 8 is the possibility of accidentally using
> classes or features not present in the older version. Same issue with
> using 8 for deving/building v3, which formally requires only 7.

Have you tried using the Animal Sniffer Maven plugin [1]? It check your
code against an API signature to make sure it uses only the Java 7 API
even if you compile with 8? (setting source/target versions doesn't
check this)

  Etienne

[1] http://www.mojohaus.org/animal-sniffer/

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