[aspectj-users] Compiling java-7 code with jdk-8

[Jonas Trollvik <jontro@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I get a number of different results when trying to compile java 7 code with the latest jdk.

I have tried with aspectj-maven-plugin version 1.6

with aspectjrt versions of 1.7.3 and 1.8.0

I am using the following plugin dependency

compiler.version is 1.7

<plugin>

    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>

    <artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>

    <version>1.6</version>

    <executions>

        <execution>

            <goals>

                <goal>compile</goal>

            </goals>

        </execution>

    </executions>

    <configuration>

        <source>${compiler.version}</source>

        <target>${compiler.version}</target>

        <Xlint>ignore</Xlint>

        <complianceLevel>${compiler.version}</complianceLevel>

        <verbose>false</verbose>

    </configuration>

    <dependencies>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>

            <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>

            <version>${aspectj.version}</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>

            <artifactId>aspectjtools</artifactId>

            <version>${aspectj.version}</version>

        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

</plugin>

With aspectjrt versions of 1.8.0 I get a lot of error messages like the following:

[ERROR] The type new Comparator<FileEntry>(){} must implement the inherited abstract method Comparator<FileEntry>.thenComparing(Function<? super FileEntry,? extends U>, Comparator<? super U>)

With aspectj 1.7.3 I get the following error message

[ERROR] The type java.util.Map$Entry cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

It all works fine with 1.7.3 if I compile it with jdk7

Any suggestions?

Kind regards

Jonas