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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
Pavan Kumar Srinivasan
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Joined: Sep 17, 2008
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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 ]
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
Maneesh Godbole
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Originally posted by L Willie:
thank,understand now


You are welcome.

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"L.Willie"
Could you please adjust your screen display name to comply to the ranch naming policy?
 
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
 
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