Weird problems

[akibu]

I haven't been programming java for that long, but I am facing some very strange problems.
I am following suns Java tut and several of the sources that they give to you as examples ( or even as solutions to problems) don't compile. Now I doubt that Sun would be so careless as to make a mistake in their source, so I assume it must be a fault somewhere on my part. I am running suns jdk 1.3.1 on redhat 7.1. Up untill today I have had no problems; but with two examples the compiler fails to recognise a final instatance variable as accessable by an inner class.
If anybody has any suggestions I would really appreciate it.
Thanks.

 

[pipk]

how about giving us the code.

 

[spinik]

I "second" pipk's comment Spinik
Senior consultant

 

[akibu]

The actual code is unimportant as there is nothing wrong with it - it compiles fine on my windows box. The issue is really about jdk1.3.1 on a redhat7.1 setup. But you can have it anyway:
//1.3

import java.util.*;

public class ProblemSolved {
public static void main(String[] args) {
final Timer timer = new Timer();
timer.schedule(new TimerTask() {
public void run() {
System.out.println("Exiting."
timer.cancel();
}
},
5000);

System.out.println("In 5 seconds this application will exit. "
}
}


I have also noted that some swing classes can not be found by javac namely JFrame.
Thanks for your time.

 

[wushutwist]

Sounds like a CLASSPATH issue. Check to make sure the rt.jar is on your CLASSPATH.

 

[akibu]

Thanks for the input, but rt.jar is allready in my CLASSPATH

 

[ChrisCarroll]

Hi

1) Are you sure you have 1.3.1 (as opposed to 1.1.3?)

2) could you show us exactly what you CLASPATH is set to?

and

3) Could you show us a copy of the exact message(s) that you get when it fails to compile?

Chris

 

[akibu]

Thank you all so much for your help - What it turned out to be was the Kaffe virtual machine that was in my path before the JDK. It was when I did java -version to check it was 1.3.1 that I realised.
Oh well, silly me.
Thanks again.