Require Java 8

README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Plexus Language
 ![Build Status](https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-languages/workflows/GitHub%20CI/badge.svg)
+![GitHub Workflow Status](https://img.shields.io/github/workflow/status/codehaus-plexus/plexus-languages/GitHub%20CI)
 
 Plexus Languages:
 

plexus-java/pom.xml

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
   <name>Plexus Languages :: Java</name>
 
   <properties>
-    <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
-    <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
+    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
   </properties>
 
   <build>

plexus-java/src/site/markdown/locationmanager.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 The plexus-java library is created to have a solution for common activities, so this business logic doesn't have to be maintained at multiple places. The first provided feature was the `LocationManager` to analyze module desciptors and to decide which jars should end up on the modulepath and which on the classpath. The name was based on the [javax.tools.JavaFileManager.Location]. (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/api/javax/tools/JavaFileManager.Location.html)
 
-The library requires Java 7 to run, but contains optimized code for Java 9. By requiring Java 7 it was much easier to embed this library in several other projects.  
+The library requires Java 8 to run, but contains optimized code for Java 9. By requiring Java 8 it was much easier to embed this library in several other projects.  
 
-This jar is a multi release jar (aka MRJAR), because it contains 2 implementations for the `BinaryModuleInfoParser`. If the Java runtime is 9 or above, the `java.lang.module.ModuleDescriptor` is used to read the `module-info.class`. If the runtime is Java 7 or Java 8, then ASM is used to read the module descriptor.
+This jar is a multi release jar (aka MRJAR), because it contains 2 implementations for the `BinaryModuleInfoParser`. If the Java runtime is 9 or above, the `java.lang.module.ModuleDescriptor` is used to read the `module-info.class`. If the runtime is Java 8, then ASM is used to read the module descriptor.
 
 When extracting the the automatic module name based the of the file, it is a little bit more complex. The result must be precise, so the only way to solve this is by calling Java 9 code, either from the runtime or by calling Java 9 explicitly when provided via `ResolvePathsRequest.setJdkHome`.
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Additional methods are:
 
 - `setIncludeAllProviders`, in general would only be used at runtime, not during compile or test. In case `uses` is used, all modules with matching `provides` are added as well.   
 
-- `setJdkHome`, should point to Java 9 or above in case the runtime of this library is Java 7 or 8
+- `setJdkHome`, should point to Java 9 or above in case the runtime of this library is Java 8
 
 - `setMainModuleDescriptor`, which can either be a `module-info.java` or `module-info.class`
 

pom.xml

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
   <properties>
     <scm.url>scm:git:git@github.com:codehaus-plexus/plexus-languages.git</scm.url>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    <javaVersion>7</javaVersion>
+    <javaVersion>8</javaVersion>
     <project.build.outputTimestamp>2021-03-27T12:17:24Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
   </properties>