Re: [Solved] Error: Syntax error, annotations are only available if source level is 5.0

[Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org>]

On Thu May 14 2009 3:47:14 pm rahul.soa wrote:
> Hell everyone,
>
> This problem is solved. Please dont spend time on it.
>
> The problem was with ant as the ant script by default looks for
> /etc/ant.conf file
> and the conf file point to an old version of ant which does not know how to
> detect java 5 or 6.
> So I removed the ant.conf from /etc and point to the ANT_HOME which is set
> to the newer version of ant.
>
> Thanks to Jarek for solving this with me.

Cool.   I was just starting to type up some suggestions to add a target 
attribute to javac and such and run ant -version and such to try and debug it.  

Thanks!
Dan


>
> Regards,
> Rahul
>
>
> Thanks to Jarek for solving this with me.
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:44 AM, rahul.soa <ra...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I am trying to run some samples given under the apache CXF distribution
> > (apache-cxf-2.1.5). I have deployed /apache-cxf-2.1.5/samples/*
> > java_first_pojo* in tomcat and it works well.
> >
> > However, when I try to create a war file (by running "ant war") for the
> > sample /apache-cxf-2.1.5/samples/*java_first_spring_support*
> > I get the following error
> >
> > "Syntax error, annotations are only available if source level is 5.0"
> >
> > I am using sun java 1.6 version and its set on path.
> >
> > Can anyone help me in this?
> >
> > //quote
> >
> > [rahul@localhost java_first_spring_support]$ ant war
> > Buildfile: build.xml
> > maybe.generate.code:
> > compile:
> >     [javac] Compiling 2 source files to
> > /home/rahul/apache-cxf-2.1.5/samples/java_first_spring_support/build/clas
> >ses [javac] ----------
> >     [javac] 1. ERROR in
> > /home/rahul/apache-cxf-2.1.5/samples/java_first_spring_support/src/demo/s
> >pring/HelloWorld.java (at line 24)
> >     [javac]     @WebService
> >     [javac]     ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >     [javac] Syntax error, annotations are only available if source level
> > is 5.0
> >     [javac] ----------
> >     [javac] ----------
> >     [javac] 2. ERROR in
> > /home/rahul/apache-cxf-2.1.5/samples/java_first_spring_support/src/demo/s
> >pring/HelloWorldImpl.java (at line 24)
> >     [javac]     @WebService(endpointInterface = "demo.spring.HelloWorld")
> >     [javac]     ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >     [javac] Syntax error, annotations are only available if source level
> > is 5.0
> >     [javac] ----------
> >     [javac] 2 problems (2 errors)
> > BUILD FAILED
> > /home/rahul/apache-cxf-2.1.5/samples/common_build.xml:113: Compile
> > failed; see the compiler error output for details.
> > Total time: 2 seconds
> >
> > //unquote
> >
> > Many Thanks,
> > Rahul

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