diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index a75538b..209e09a 100755
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -43,17 +43,17 @@
 
 	<!-- Compile the java toolkit -->
 	<target name="compile" depends="init" description="compile the source">
-		<!-- Compile to Java 7 to provide compatibility for users with older JREs.
+		<!-- Compile to Java 8 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 7.
-		     Indeed, one gets the warning: "bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.7"
+		     may still use newer libraries which may cause issues for users with JDK 8.
+		     Indeed, one gets the warning: "bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.8"
 		     To fix this, one would use the bootstrap classpath to point our JDK to an rt.jar
-		     for Java 7. 
-		     At this stage, I'm sure I'm not using new library calls from Java 8+, so we can
+		     for Java 8. 
+		     At this stage, I'm sure I'm not using new library calls from Java 9+, so we can
 		     ignore the warning, and I don't want to bother installing newer Java just to compile
-		     like this. I'll endeavour not to use JDK 8 libraries so as not to cause
+		     like this. I'll endeavour not to use JDK 9+ libraries so as not to cause
 		     any issues here ... -->
-		<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${bin}" includeAntRuntime="false" target="1.7" source="1.7" encoding="UTF8">
+		<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${bin}" includeAntRuntime="false" target="1.8" source="1.8" encoding="UTF8">
 			<classpath refid="apache-classpath"/>
 		</javac>