Ant is using wrong java version

Question

I\'m using Ant 1.7.0 and installed java 1.6 which is in JAVA_HOME.

I want to build a project using java 1.5, so I\'ve exported JAVA_HOME to be my java 1.5 directory.

Answer 1

You can use the target and source properties on the javac tag to set a target runtime. The example below will compile any source code to target version 1.4 on any compiler that supports version 1.4 or later.

Note: The 'srcdir' and 'destdir' are property values set else where in the build script, e.g.