Different maven compiler versions for test and main

Question

How can I configure the maven compiler to use java 5 for my test code and java 1.4 for my main code?

Answer 1

I had no luck with the accepted answer compiling java 7 source and java 8 test sources using the maven-compiler-plugin, version 3.5.1. Because the compile plugin used the source / target parameter for both, main and test sources.

But I found out, there are separate configuration parameters for the test source and target.

So for me the solution that worked was

 
    
        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-compiler-plugin
            3.5.1
            
                1.7
                1.7
                1.8
                1.8