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Eclipse and java5

May 26, 2005 Java, Tools 4 Comments

Use Eclipse with java5:

  • Download a 3.1 Milestone
  • Add java5 to the installed jre’s (Window > Preferences > Java > Installed JRE’s)
  • Set the compiler compliance level to 5.0 (Window > Preferences > Java > Compiler)

Although it is said that Eclipse must pick up java5 by starting it with eclipse.exe -vm <path -to-jdk1.5-install>binjavaw.exe (you can check that with Help > About Eclipse Platform > Configuration Details) it worked fine for without that setting (maybe because java5 is my system’s default).

For me the third option did the trick.
This is the error message I got before changing that setting:
is not generic; it cannot be parameterized with arguments <string>
Syntax error, parameterized types are only available if source level is 5.0

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Aino Andriessen

Aino Andriessen is principal consultant and expertise lead 'Continuous Delivery'. His focus is on Oracle Fusion Middleware ADF and SOA development, Continuous Delivery, architecture, improving the software development proces and quality management. He is a frequent presenter at Oracle Open World, ODTUG Kaleidoscope, UKOUG Technology Conference and OUGN Vårseminar. He writes articles and publishes at the AMIS technology blog (http://technology.amis.nl/blog/).

4 Comments

  1. Marjon Hilberink April 4, 2006

    He Aino,
    Bedankt voor de tip!

    Alles goed?

    Marjon

  2. Ted Weatherly September 23, 2005

    You may need to do a rebuild to avoid seeing the errors.

  3. Ted Weatherly September 23, 2005

    You may need to do a rebuild to avoid seeing the errors.

  4. Stephan H. Wissel May 26, 2005

    I’m running 3.0 on a JDK 5.0 for a while and as long as I stick to Java 1.4 in code everything works fine. Of course the editor complains if I try new J5 stuff.
    🙂 stw