How to configure Maven to build two versions of an artifact, each one for a different target JRE

java, maven, target

Solution

You can configure this via the Maven compiler plugin.

Take a look at the Maven compiler plugin documentation.

You could enable this via different profiles for instance.

If you only want to have different target versions you could simply use a variable target. Something like this:

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.2</version>
    <configuration>
        <source>1.3</source>
        <target>${TARGET_VERSION}</target>
        <fork>true</fork>
    </configuration>
 </plugin>

Problem

I have a maven module that I need to use in the J2ME client and in the EJB server. In the client I need to compile it for target 1.1 and in the server for target 1.6 . I also need to deploy the 1.6 version to a Nexus repository, so the members working on the server project can include this dependency without needing to download the source code. I've read at http://java.dzone.com/articles/maven-profile-best-practices that using profiles is not the best way of doing this, but the author didn't say what's the best way. Here is my pom.xml: ``` <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <parent> <artifactId>proj-parent</artifactId> <groupId>br.com.comp.proj</groupId> <version>0.0.4-SNAPSHOT</version> </parent> <artifactId>proj-cryptolib</artifactId> <name>proj - Cryto Lib</name> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>br.com.comp</groupId> <artifactId>comp-proj-mobile-messages</artifactId> <version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3.2</version> <configuration> <source>1.3</source> <target>1.1</target> <fork>true</fork> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project> ```

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