------ Target JDK ------ Dennis Lundberg ------ 2008-01-02 ------ ~~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one ~~ or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file ~~ distributed with this work for additional information ~~ regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file ~~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the ~~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance ~~ with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at ~~ ~~ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ~~ ~~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, ~~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an ~~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY ~~ KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the ~~ specific language governing permissions and limitations ~~ under the License. ~~ NOTE: For help with the syntax of this file, see: ~~ http://maven.apache.org/doxia/references/apt-format.html Target JDK There is a configuration element in the PMD plugin that let you set which target JDK to use. Often you want this to be in sync with the configuration for maven-compiler-plugin. The best practice for this is to set up a property and use that in the configuration section for each of the plugins. Here is an example on how to set that up: +--------------------+ ... maven-compiler-plugin 2.0.2 ${compileSource} ... maven-pmd-plugin ${project.version} ${compileSource} ... 1.5 ... +--------------------+