[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Eclipse for Linux - Java Issues

[Daniel Rohe <daniel.rohe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don Tucker schrieb:
> Hello, I recently installed Fedora Core 4, which came with an Eclipse
> package (v3.2?).  When I attempted to write Java code in the IDE,
> however, I get errors for ArrayList<Character>.  It tells me that
> ArrayList is not generic.  However, I get no such problem when doing the
> same thing in Eclipse v3.1 for Windows.  I tried changing the JDK
> Compliance level between 5.0 and 1.4, but neither worked.  Any idea of
> what the problem might be?
> 
> Don
> 

Fedora Core 4 comes with the GCJ and Eclipse 3.1. GCJ doesn't support
Java 1.4 as far as I know. I've installed the Sun JDK from JPackage.org
to use the new Java 5.0 language features in FC4.

Kind regards,
Daniel