Setting Maven-compiler-version to Amazon Corretto?

[Lisa Austin]

I hope Beginning Java is okay for this question.  I'm trying to learn Spring and SpringBoot . I have a mentor who has me learning by working on a small project and one task I was given has confused me but I won't meet with him until Friday.  I can email but I just want to run this by someone before I bring it up to him because I think I may have missed something.

I need to change the application's Java version from 1.8 to Amazon Corretto 8.
Maven currently has the maven-compiler-plugin configuration set with source = 1.8 and target = 1.8.

When I was Googling for information about this it looks like this is just set in the project's IDE or I guess the machine it's being built on?  So it's not a POM change ?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/548172/maven-compiler-version-for-amazon-corretto



   <plugin>                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>                <configuration>                    <source>1.8</source>                    <target>1.8</target>                </configuration>            </plugin>

[Zachary Griggs]

I compile all my projects in 1.8. Example:

    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
        <maven.compiler.version>3.8.1</maven.compiler.version>
    </properties>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${maven.compiler.version}</version>
                <configuration>
                    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
                    <source>${java.version}</source>
                    <target>${java.version}</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

This should work with Java 8. If this is the way your pom is currently setup, then you probably just need to download the SDK.

Locally:
File -> Project Structure -> Project SDK
If the SDK version isn't compatible with java 1.8, you'll see a lot of errors

You should be able to use Java 1.8 with Amazon Coretto Java 8. That would be a change on the machine to install that SDK and use it, probably. I'd imagine it would be on some sort of build server. Do you use Jenkins?

[Lisa Austin]

Zachary Griggs wrote:I compile all my projects in 1.8. Example:

This should work with Java 8. If this is the way your pom is currently setup, then you probably just need to download the SDK.

Locally:
File -> Project Structure -> Project SDK
If the SDK version isn't compatible with java 1.8, you'll see a lot of errors

You should be able to use Java 1.8 with Amazon Coretto Java 8. That would be a change on the machine to install that SDK and use it, probably. I'd imagine it would be on some sort of build server. Do you use Jenkins?

Thank You.  I was just confused I think by what was being asked by my mentor.  Things seem like it should be simple but if it's too simple it seems wrong. LOL.  Thanks for confirming for me.