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There is a problem

Back to the point, the problem is that the default JDK version of my computer is 1.8.0_ 71. Then I usually use JDK version 1.7, which is installation free. I only configure environment variables. I usually don’t have this problem with eclipse development. Yesterday, idea didn’t have this problem either. As a result, I created a new project today, set JDK version and Tomcat to 1.7. After typing the code, I started it. This error is exploded, as follows:

E rror:java : invalid source release: 1.8

Problem solving

After checking some information, we have the following solutions:
1. Settings – > Build, Execution, Deployment -> Compiler -> Java compiler, and then set the project bytecode version to 1.7, as shown in the figure:
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Tried, failed.

2.Project Structure -> Modules -> Dependencies, set the module SDK to 1.7, as shown in the figure below:

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After checking, my setting is 1.7, failed

3. Finally, I found an article similar to my question

E rror:java : javacstask: source release 8 requires target release 1.8, so I went to check my language level, and it turned out to be 1.8, changed it to 7, and ran successfully!

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Extracurricular extension

So what is the language level?I haven’t seen this concept in eclipse before. I checked it and explained it as follows:

When we use JDK 8, we can only downward compatible with JDK 8 and the following features, so we can only select language level 8 and the following. So when our project uses JDK 8, but the code does not use the new features of JDK 8, and uses the features of JDK 7 at most, we can choose 7 – diamonds, arm, multi catch, etc.

In this regard, we summarize language level: JDK features that limit the minimum requirements for project compilation checking.

Now suppose we have a new feature of JDK 8 used in the project code: lambda syntax, but JDK chooses JDK 7. Even if language level chooses 8 – Lambdas, type annotation, etc., it doesn’t make much sense. It will also compile and report errors.

So, language level is a bit like the minimum supported version of our project. For example, if the language level is set to 5.0, the 6.0/7.0 feature code will not appear.

This article shares CSDN – Donghai Chen Guangjian.