diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 18b7bbe..195fe57 100755
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -40,17 +40,17 @@
 
 	<!-- Compile the java toolkit -->
 	<target name="compile" depends="init" description="compile the source and unittests">
-		<!-- Compile to Java 6 to provide compatibility for users with older JREs.
+		<!-- Compile to Java 7 to provide compatibility for users with older JREs.
 		     Caveat: The flags here only check the language compatibility, but
-		     may still use newer libraries which may cause issues for users with JDK 6.
-		     Indeed, one gets the warning: "bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.6"
+		     may still use newer libraries which may cause issues for users with JDK 7.
+		     Indeed, one gets the warning: "bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.7"
 		     To fix this, one would use the bootstrap classpath to point our JDK to an rt.jar
-		     for Java 6. 
-		     At this stage, I'm sure I'm not using new library calls from Java 7, so we can
-		     ignore the warning, and I don't want to bother installing Java 6 just to compile
-		     like this. I'll endeavour not to use JDK 7 libraries so as not to cause
+		     for Java 7. 
+		     At this stage, I'm sure I'm not using new library calls from Java 8, so we can
+		     ignore the warning, and I don't want to bother installing Java 7 just to compile
+		     like this. I'll endeavour not to use JDK 8 libraries so as not to cause
 		     any issues here ... -->
-		<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${bin}" includeAntRuntime="false" target="1.6" source="1.6">
+		<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${bin}" includeAntRuntime="false" target="1.7" source="1.7">
 			<classpath refid="apache-classpath"/>
     </javac>
 
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
   <!-- Compile and jar the toolkit with debug symbols -->
   <target name="debug" depends="init" description="compile and jar with debug symbols">
     <echo message="Compiling for debug"/>
-    <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${bin}" includeAntRuntime="false" target="1.6" source="1.6" debug="true">
+    <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${bin}" includeAntRuntime="false" target="1.7" source="1.7" debug="true">
 			<classpath refid="apache-classpath"/>
     </javac>