[#IDEABKL-5149] Different JDK for runtime and tests

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Different JDK for runtime and tests

Created: 18 Apr 07 16:41 Updated: 08 Jun 07 14:04

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It would be great if it was possible to configure a diferent JDK for testing.
My current use case is that i'm implementing a project that will run in JDK 1.4 but i want to implement and run the tests in JDK 1.5.

The only way i can do this now is use JDK 1.5 and be very carefull not to use any JDK 1.5 features in the runtime code base.

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Vladislav Kaznacheev - 19 Apr 07 13:46

You could also move test classes to a separate module and configure different language level for it.

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Hugo Palma - 19 Apr 07 13:56

Yes, that does work.
Still, i don't think that's a better solution than what i suggested. My reasons are:

I have enough modules on my projects. I don't want to double the number of modules in my projects, it will make it almost impossible to manage.
It will force me to either export all dependencies of the runtime module or have to replicate them to the test module. I want neither.
As you can't have two modules in the same dir, following the maven source structure, i'd have to create the test module in the src/test directory. This doesn't look very clean to me.