Description Ram Viswanadha 2006-09-06 22:12:30 EDT

Compilation of subclasses of java.nio.Charset fail if the the installed JRE is JDK 1.5.0 with Eclipse with an error that subclasses of Charset must implement compareTo(Object o) method.
Compilation works from command line.

To reproduce:
1. Create a project in Eclipse 3.2
2. Set the installed JRE to Sun JDK 1.5.0
3. Add the following class to the project and build.

import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder;

public class Charset88591 extends Charset {

    protected Charset88591(String canonicalName, String[] aliases) {
        super(canonicalName, aliases);
        // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
    }

    public boolean contains(Charset cs) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return false;
    }

    public CharsetDecoder newDecoder() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return null;
    }

    public CharsetEncoder newEncoder() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return null;
    }

}