Description Eric Jain 2008-06-20 21:06:19 EDT

The following three classes appear to compile fine in Eclipse:

Foo.java
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interface Foo<T> {
    void foo(T item);
}

Bar.java
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public class Bar {
    
    public void foo(Object item) {
        
    }
    
    public void foo(String item) {
        
    }
}

Test.java
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public class Test extends Bar implements Foo<String> {
    
}


However compiling the same classes with javac (Sun 1.5.0_15) results in the following error:

Test.java:1: name clash: foo(java.lang.Object) in Bar and foo(T) in Foo<java.lang.String> have the same erasure, yet neither overrides the other
public class Test extends Bar implements Foo<String> {
       ^
1 error