I've been trying to get this to work for a while now but no luck yet.

I want to run with JAVA_HOME pointing to JDK7 but I want to compile a project for JVM 5. I've read through documentation, I've found similar posts on SO, but none of them seem to work in my setup.

I first tried with setting just target and source but I got an error:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <source>1.5</source>
        <target>1.5</target>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

[ClassName] is not abstract and does not override abstract method getParentLogger() in CommonDataSource

As far as I understood that class was updated in JDK 7 and the extra method that's throwing the error was just added. I need to use the runtime of JDK 5 that has the old implementation and everything should work fine. So I do this:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <verbose>true</verbose>
        <source>1.5</source>
        <target>1.5</target>
        <compilerArguments>
            <bootclasspath>${env.JAVA5_HOME}/jre/lib/rt.jar</bootclasspath>
        </compilerArguments>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

I have JAVA5_HOME set correctly on my system, I can see it loading the correct classes in the log, but I h

java maven java-5
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