How different is the compilation procees of Java and Perl ? Both produce a byte code but what happens after that? Is the interpretation in perl and conversion from object code to machine code in java is all that is different? If so then why cant Java be a scripting language? Answer The first thing to note is …
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IntelliJ IDEA 13 uses Java 1.5 despite setting to 1.7
Despite specifying JDK 1.7 in all project settings (including in File -> Project Structure -> Project :: Project SDK), the following error is produced by IntelliJ 13 when trying to compile some simple Java 7 code which does use the diamond operator: Is there any other place in the configuration where th…
Maven skip compile
I want to use Maven to execute a certain plug-in that only needs the source code but I do not want Maven to compile anything (mostly because the project just doesn’t compile). How do I tell Maven to skip the compile step and just launch its plug-in and then package the generated resources together in a …