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L Willie
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following is an open source project that can make keytool in GUI looks and use i try to understand and use it,however it display such error message during compile 1 of the file as of release 5, 'enum' is a keyword, and may not be used as an identifier following it he code how to solve this problem?, thank Sincerely willie
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Pavan Kumar Srinivasan
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use '-source 1.4 ' to use enum as an identifier when compiling with javac. [ October 15, 2008: Message edited by: Pavan Kumar Srinivasan ]
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Maneesh Godbole
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"L.Willie" Could you please adjust your screen display name to comply to the ranch naming policy? Coming back to your problem: Take a look at this article. It lists the reserved keywords in java. As you can see "enum" is one of them. http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/_keywords.html To fix your problem, you need to change to something like This doesn't look like an advanced question. Can any of the mods. please move this to a more appropriate forum?
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L Willie
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thank,understand now
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Maneesh Godbole
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Originally posted by L Willie: thank,understand now
You are welcome. Did you also read this?
"L.Willie" Could you please adjust your screen display name to comply to the ranch naming policy?
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