Setting the target version of Java in ant javac

Question

I need to compile a jar file using ant (1.7.0) to run under a specific version of Java (1.5). I currently have Java 1.6 on my machine. I have tried setting:

Answer 1

You may also set {{ant.build.javac.target=1.5}} ant property to update default target version of task. See http://ant.apache.org/manual/javacprops.html#target