The fix for the following issue is here http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Maven-refusing-to-compile-Spring-project-due-to-annotations-tp4309204p4309211.html. Duh!
I’m running Eclipse and Maven on a Mac. Here’s my version of Maven
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$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 20:16:01+0100)
Java version: 1.6.0_22
Java home: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman
OS name: "mac os x" version: "10.5.8" arch: "x86_64" Family: "mac"
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What I’m trying to do is use Maven to compile my Spring project (it builds fine in Eclipse) so I can deploy the war to a Tomcat. I setup my pom.xml (see below) and asked mvn to create the package. The build failed with the following error:
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Compilation failure
/path/to/WelcomeController.java:[7,1] annotations are not supported in -source 1.3
(use -source 5 or higher to enable annotations)
@Controller
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Doing mvn compile gives the same error. Google showed me that this was a known problem with Maven with the fix explained here:
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/howto.html
I can’t see why the fix isn’t working for me. In desparation I followed these instructions:
http://pwong-tipsandtricks.blogspot.com/2009/02/install-and-test-maven-on-centos-52.html and put a fresh maven on my Linux box. The build failed with the same error, so it seems that my pom.xml is the culprit. But how? Here’s the pom.
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<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>net.fnarg.twotrack</groupId>
<artifactId>twotrack-webapp</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>Twotrack Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<spring.version>3.0.5.RELEASE</spring.version>
<appName>twotrack</appName>
<tomcatPackageName>apache-tomcat-twotrack</tomcatPackageName>
<runas.username>twotrack</runas.username>
<runas.group>twotrack</runas.group>
</properties>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>com.springsource.repository.bundles.release</id>
<name>SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository – SpringSource Bundle
Releases</name>
<url>http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/milestone</url>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>com.springsource.repository.bundles.external</id>
<name>SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository – External Bundle
Releases</name>
<url>http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/external</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.el</groupId>
<artifactId>el-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.taglibs</groupId>
<artifactId>com.springsource.org.apache.taglibs.standard</artifactId>
<version>1.1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<finalName>twotrack</finalName>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/webapp</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>
</project>
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