How to build Super CSV with maven

Question

I want to build Super CSV code cloned from the git repository: https://github.com/super-csv/super-csv

First of all Maven complains since the project is setup for java 1.5 and Maven uses 1.6. I have tried to change to 1.6 in pom-file but then I get a JavaDoc error.

Is the project abandoned? If not can you supply some info about how to build?

Answer 1

Ex maintainer here.

Is the project abandoned?

I think you can probably tell from Github that there hasn't been any activity for a few years. Kasper was looking for people to help maintain the project, but it looks like it's fizzled out. Back when I worked on it the README was correct (it was actively maintained)!

can you supply some info about how to build?

If you wanted to compile for 1.5, you might be able to find an old Java 8 JDK (the project was built on JDK8 but the main module compiled for 1.5) but it looks current versions of JDK8 have deprecated 1.5.

Like you say, upgrading to 6 causes the javadoc to fail (as it uses deprecated syntax like <tt> tags). You can simply comment out the javadoc plugin configuration in pom.xml to work around that.

For what it's worth I got it to compile with JDK8, setting to Java 6 in the maven-compiler-plugin config and disabling the javadoc plugin.