diff --git a/api/maven-api-model/src/main/mdo/maven.mdo b/api/maven-api-model/src/main/mdo/maven.mdo index 4a9c05f77e..64b5868963 100644 --- a/api/maven-api-model/src/main/mdo/maven.mdo +++ b/api/maven-api-model/src/main/mdo/maven.mdo @@ -2062,11 +2062,12 @@ The version of the platform where the code will be executed. In a Java environment, this is the value of the {@code --release} compiler option. If a Java project contains multiple main sources with different target versions, - then a multi-version JAR file will be created. + then a multi-version JAR file will be created + with the lowest version taken as the base version. If this element is omitted, then the default target version is the compiler default value, which is usually the version of the Java environment running Maven. -
If a target version is specified for resources or script files, +
If a target version, different from the base version, is specified for resources or script files, then this value modifies the directory where the files will be copied. For example, if {@code targetVersion} is 17, then the {@code foo/bar.properties} resource file will be copied as {@code META-INF/versions/17/foo/bar.properties}.
@@ -2100,7 +2101,7 @@The default value is {@code false}.
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