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Problem with annotations [message #189985]

Sun, 19 December 2004 01:13

Dim Dimych

Messages: 11
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi there,
Writing a proof-of-concept for a customer but hit upon the compiler
error "Retention cannot be resolved to a type"
This is a code excerpt:

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
public @interface Mark { }

Any ideas? JDK 1.5.0 and freshly installed Eclipse 3.1M4. Everything is
running on W2K.

Thanks!

Dim Dimych

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Re: Problem with annotations (addenum) [message #189994 is a reply to message #189985]

Sun, 19 December 2004 01:15

Dim Dimych

Messages: 11
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Forgot to tell that both and @Retention and @Target annotations are
producing the error message.

Dim Dimych wrote:
> Hi there,
> Writing a proof-of-concept for a customer but hit upon the compiler
> error "Retention cannot be resolved to a type"
> This is a code excerpt:
>
> @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
> @Target(ElementType.METHOD)
> public @interface Mark { }
>
> Any ideas? JDK 1.5.0 and freshly installed Eclipse 3.1M4. Everything is
> running on W2K.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dim Dimych

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Re: Problem with annotations [message #190079 is a reply to message #189985]

Mon, 20 December 2004 10:26

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: zoopy.hates.spam.biz

On 19-12-2004 2:13, Dim Dimych wrote:
> Hi there,
> Writing a proof-of-concept for a customer but hit upon the compiler
> error "Retention cannot be resolved to a type"
> This is a code excerpt:
>
> @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
> @Target(ElementType.METHOD)
> public @interface Mark { }
>
> Any ideas? JDK 1.5.0 and freshly installed Eclipse 3.1M4. Everything is
> running on W2K.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dim Dimych

Did you import java.lang.annotation.*; ?

--
Regards,
Z.

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