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Years ago, someone reported the annoying confusing behavior in 7.5 when they tried to create a jvm 1.6-compliant Web Project to run under Java EE5.0. It’s still a problem under 9.1.
We’re using version 6 with EE 5. I don’t even have a 1.5 jdk on my dev box. I just created a Web Project several times t0 verify MyEclipse behavior. I select File > New > Web Project. Then, I enter a name, note that the default Java EE 5.0 is still selected, and click Finish. It pops the Incompatible Java Compliance Level box:
Compiler compliance … should be 5.0. Your … default is 6.0. Do you want to use a custom setting for your project?
If I click No, the box goes away and my project is created. If I display its properties, the compliance level is set to 1.5, the Use default… box is checked, the shadowed values show 1.5, and there’s an alert message about my lack of a 1.5 jdk.
If I click Yes, I get the same results.
There is also a link “Open workspace compiler settings”. If I click the link, it shows my workspace settings including (gasp!) compiler compliance 1.6. When I click OK there, that window and the popup both disappear and my project is created. With a compliance level of 1.5. Of course.
The message in the box should be changed. It should be possible to create a Web Project (or other EE project) with the workspace default compliance level. Just in case a user wants a different compliance level for EE projects, there should be a workspace setting for the EE compliance level.
I looked at the Web Project tutorial just to see if this issue was mentioned there. (It isn’t.) The tutorial should be updated to show more current pictures, etc.
vgriffin,
This is more of a problem than a feature request. Clicking No should not have resulted in the situation you describe and we have someone looking at that right now – a fix may get into release 10, due this month.
I had called it a “feature request” because of comments made by the support responder a couple of years ago. Also, it would be nice to be able to specify this stuff as preferences.
Thanks for looking at it, and I very much look forward to having this feature behave correctly!
