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Hi everybody,
I got a problem with sdk 1.5; in my data structures book it says we can use (sdk 1.5) collections in a generic way such as:

LinkedList<Integer> intList = new LinkedList<Integer>();

I work with eclipse 3.0 and have sdk 1.5 beta installed, but when I type the code above, I'm not able to compile. the error msg is "syntax error on token "<" invalid AssignmentOperator"
Am I missing something obvious here?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
 
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Eclipse does not (yet) support the new 1.5 syntax.
There is an experimental plugin for Eclipse 3 that's supposed to give at least partial support, you'll need to search the Eclipse site for it.
 
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Moving this to the IDEs and Other Tools forum...
 
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Thanks Jeroen,
in this case it should work when i use command line to compile and execute my files, but somehow it gives me the same error message when i try to compile it via cmd. any more ideas??
help is greatly appreciated.

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Ben,
When you use the command line, does it recognize that you are using the 1.5 version of Java?

To check:
>java -version
 
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yupp, it does:

java -version

output:
java version "1.5.0-beta2"
 
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Ben,
Since it happens at the command line too, I'm going to move it to Java in General.
 
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Are you using javac -source 1.5 ?
 
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Well, after trying to get it to work, I removed the 1.4 version, so there is only one vm on my computer. I would think I dont have to specify the source, do I?
thanks,
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You do have to specify the source level. By default, the 1.5 Java compiler does not recognize the new features in Tiger.

-Jeff-
 
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What?? doesnt seem to be a tiger then... rather a pussycat!!
 
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It was the same way for Java 1.4. Since there's code which is legal only with -source 1.3 and code which is legal only with -source 1.4 the people at Sun decided not to break legacy build configurations by causing the default setting to break on older code. It's easier for developers to simply adopt new habits with new versions and let old versions continue to function unaware of the differences. If it weren't for the new keywords (assert in 1.4, enum + foreach and whatever else in 1.5) this wouldn't be a problem, but alas it is.
 
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the new keywords (assert in 1.4, enum + foreach and whatever else in 1.5)

It's just enum for 1.5. There's no foreach keyword - there's just a new syntax using "for". Still, enum is enough reason for them to be careful about backwards compatibility, since I've seen people write things like
 
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Are there any issues if I install JDK 1.5 in a windows machine where JDK 1.4 already installed.

Java Tiger will named as Java 5 rather than j2se 1.5.

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=26955
 
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Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Are there any issues if I install JDK 1.5 in a windows machine where JDK 1.4 already installed.

Java Tiger will named as Java 5 rather than j2se 1.5.

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=26955



Well, but it doesn't make sense... But it seems to reflect that there is a revolution in Java...
 
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