[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Updating eclipse to use J2SE 5.0 JDK

["Darin Swanson" <Darin_Swanson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ensure that you have downloaded Eclipse 3.1 M5

Darins

"Gary Buyn" <simplegsb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>I have downloaded the 'J2SE 5.0 update 1' JDK and followed all the 
>necessary steps to include it in eclipse and make it the default JDK. When 
>I try to use the new coding features (like generic types) it does not seem 
>to recognise them. I believe this is because the compliance level of the 
>compiler cannot be set above 1.4 and I'm guessing that is because the 
>compiler in eclipse does not support the new JDK.
>
> Can I download a compiler that will support the 5.0 JDK? Or is there 
> something else I can do to solve this?
>
> Thanks, Gary.
>