In Eclipse Websphere 7, how do I resolve "Enumeration cannot be resolved" error message?

Question

I would usually get this message when I was importing or creating a new project. Everything would build fine but the compiler would give me a "Enumeration cannot be resolved" error for all Enum classes/objects.

I resolved this by changing compliance from Java 5 to Java 1.4, since Enumeration was added in Java 5 which was not there in Java 1.4.

Answer 1

As mentioned in the myeclipse forum, changing the compliance is one solution.

You can also:

• make sure your declared jre is an 1.4 one (again, with the right target "1.4 compliance" in the properties dialog)
• or use the default 1.5 one but change any 'enum' in your code, since 'enum' is a keyword in Java5. (like "rename variable" suggestion in this thread)