generics are not supported in -source 1.3

Question

I have a problem while maven packaging. In this code:

public class LoginDialog extends Dialog {

    private final TextField customer;
                 


        

Answer 1

Generics were added in java 1.5. Your maven is compiling for java 1.3.

This can be fixed in one of two ways.

Remove generics so that you can compile for < 1.5

Change the maven configuration to compile for a newer version of java. You should be able to edit your compiler plugin in your pom:

        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-compiler-plugin
            3.0
            
                1.5
                1.5
            
        

This tells maven to compile for 1.5