Question

I’m getting this error while going through Spring in Action: 3rd edition: Chapter 1. I’ve managed to get the source code from the website to work. My IDE is STS. Thanks

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building Unnamed - Knights:Knights:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO]    task-segment: [install]
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[INFO] [resources:resources {execution: default-resources}]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 1 resource
[INFO] [compiler:compile {execution: default-compile}]
[INFO] Compiling 7 source files to E:\SpringInAction\Knights\target\classes
[INFO] [resources:testResources {execution: default-testResources}]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory E:\SpringInAction\Knights\src\test\resources
[INFO] [compiler:testCompile {execution: default-testCompile}]
[INFO] Compiling 1 source file to E:\SpringInAction\Knights\target\test-classes
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[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Compilation failure

E:\SpringInAction\Knights\src\test\java\com\springinaction\knights\BraveKnightTest.java:[3,7] static import declarations are not supported in -source 1.3
(use -source 5 or higher to enable static import declarations)
import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

E:\SpringInAction\Knights\src\test\java\com\springinaction\knights\BraveKnightTest.java:[8,3] annotations are not supported in -source 1.3
(use -source 5 or higher to enable annotations)
  @Test


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[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
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[INFO] Total time: 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Aug 24 00:12:45 CDT 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 12M/232M
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Answer 1

Add this to your pom in order to tell Maven to use Version 5 of Java, by default it uses version 1.3 (see documentation):

<build>
  <pluginManagement>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.5</source>
          <target>1.5</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </pluginManagement>
</build>