Description A Vaskys 2004-10-27 11:12:12 EDT

The following classes compile using JDK 1.5.0 final:

public class Test {
   public Object getItem() {
      return null;
   }
}

public class GoodTest extends Test {
   public String getItem() {
      return null;
   }  
}

public class BadTest extends Test {
   public Comparable getItem() {
      return null;
   }
}

In Eclipse, however, BadTest gives the following compile error for getItem():
   The return type is incompatible with Test.getItem()

This seems to consistently happen when a method returning an Object is
overridden with a method returning an interface, even though it is valid java
1.5 code.

I am using Eclipse 3.1M2.