sebb wrote: > On 9 January 2015 at 00:47, Bernd Eckenfels <e...@zusammenkunft.net> > wrote: >> Am Fri, 9 Jan 2015 00:38:31 +0000 >> schrieb sebb <seb...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Just tried the animal sniffer on NET (Java 1.5) - I added a call to >>> new IOException(new Exception()) which is Java 1.6+ >> >> What Java did you use to start maven? Looks like Animal sniffer itself >> uses Java 7 API. > > Java 7, but I just tried Java 6 and that worked the same. > > I raised a bug about the unhelpful output. > > There are some bug reports which suggest that the plugin is not 100% > accurate compared with a compiler. > > So at best the plugin can be used to detect some API violations. > I think we still need to build and test with the appropriate Java version.
IMHO the animal sniffer is a good thing to add to our POMs, since it will at least detect that there's a problem. Even if it cannot generate a completely useful error report, it forces you to test with the lower JDK. Cheers, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
