Running JDK8 for aspectj

Question

I am trying to run aspectj-maven plugin with JDK8. But it is giving errors like \"The type java.lang.CharSequence cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from requir

Answer 1

Another way to solve this problem is to downgrade JDK level to 1.7. JDK 1.7 works well with aspectj-maven-plugin of versions 1.4 - 1.6.

Here is a screenshot showing how to change JDK level in IntelliJ IDEA project:

Set Project SDK to 1.7. See documentation for more details.