I have a annoying problem with @Override annotations in Eclipse. Often when i import working projects on a new PC, Eclipse marks some of the @Override annotations as wrong. If i remove the annotations everything is fine and Eclipse also indicates that the methods are overriding the parents methods but adding the Override annotation causes the error again. I am currently working on an Android project so it might be a problem with Android and not with Eclipse..
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Make sure the used Java SDK is up to date and that eclipse use the right SDK version (if you have more than one installed) and treats your Android project with the right SDK version...
WarrenFaith
2010-09-17 13:24:15
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This is most likely because you are switching between Java 1.5 and Java 1.6. In 1.5 you couldn't mark interface implementations with @Override, but you can in 1.6.
A quick Google search turned up this good explanation of the difference in this annotation between the two versions: http://www.techienuggets.com/CommentDetail?tx=38155
Semantics of @Override is different in JDK 1.5 and JDK 1.6. In JDK 1.5, the @Override annotation is not allowed for implementations of methods declared in an interface, while they are allowed in JDK 1.6. For more information, see:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5008260 http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6399361 http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/?entry=override
It is fact that the description of the Override annotation was not updated in the JDK API docs. This has been reported as a bug:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6501053bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6501053
mbaird
2010-09-17 14:06:08