Compiling Java 7 code via Maven

Question

My pom file lists

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I found that this is because the Maven script looks at the CurrentJDK link below and finds a 1.6 JDK. Even if you install the latest JDK this is not resolved. While you could just set JAVA_HOME in your $HOME/.bash_profile script I chose to fix the symbolic link instead as follows:

ls -l /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/
total 64
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 30 Oct 16:18 1.4 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 30 Oct 16:18 1.4.2 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 30 Oct 16:18 1.5 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 30 Oct 16:18 1.5.0 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 30 Oct 16:18 1.6 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 30 Oct 16:18 1.6.0 -> CurrentJDK
drwxr-xr-x  9 root  wheel  306 11 Nov 21:20 A
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    1 30 Oct 16:18 Current -> A
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   59 30 Oct 16:18 CurrentJDK -> /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents

Notice that CurrentJDK points at 1.6.0.jdk

To fix it I ran the following commands (you should check your installed version and adapt accordingly).

sudo rm /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK
sudo ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_51.jdk/Contents/ /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK