#18 Exception building AST

[Anonymous]

I click on the PMD menu to create the abstract syntax tree and get the exception below. Eclipse is using the JDK1.5 and the compiler's compatibility target is '5' (meaning JDK1.5)

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2007/09/27 13:26:51,121 ERROR PMDUiPlugin PMD Exception :
net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.ParseException: Can't use generics unless running in JDK 1.5 mode!
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.JavaParser.checkForBadGenericsUsage(JavaParser.java:32)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.JavaParser.TypeArguments(JavaParser.java:1962)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.JavaParser.ClassOrInterfaceType(JavaParser.java:1911)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.JavaParser.ReferenceType(JavaParser.java:1862)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.JavaParser.Type(JavaParser.java:1793)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.JavaParser.FieldDeclaration(JavaParser.java:1112)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.JavaParser.ClassOrInterfaceBodyDeclaration(JavaParser.java:1050)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.JavaParser.ClassOrInterfaceBody(JavaParser.java:983)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.JavaParser.ClassOrInterfaceDeclaration(JavaParser.java:494)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.JavaParser.TypeDeclaration(JavaParser.java:386)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ast.JavaParser.CompilationUnit(JavaParser.java:145)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ui.actions.PMDGenerateASTAction.generateAST(PMDGenerateASTAction.java:187)
at net.sourceforge.pmd.ui.actions.PMDGenerateASTAction.run(PMDGenerateASTAction.java:160)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PluginAction.runWithEvent(PluginAction.java:254)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:539)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2(ActionContributionItem.java:488)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:400)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:66)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:928)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:3348)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2968)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1914)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:1878)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:419)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:95)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:78)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:92)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:68)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:400)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:177)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:336)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:280)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:977)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:952)