High Fibre Programming » install http://www.4pmp.com PHP, MySQL, C, Java, Linux and other great after dinner speech topics Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:10:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Syntax error, parameterized types are only available if source level is 1.5 http://www.4pmp.com/2009/12/syntax-error-parameterized-types-are-only-available-if-source-level-is-1-5/ http://www.4pmp.com/2009/12/syntax-error-parameterized-types-are-only-available-if-source-level-is-1-5/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:30:26 +0000 Nick http://www.4pmp.com/?p=227 I recently installed Eclipse and all of a sudden my Java applications failed to build with the error:

Syntax error, parameterized types are only available if source level is 1.5

After a bit of Googling I figured out that Eclipse installed a different JVM and set it as the default one.   On Ubuntu (at least) the way to change the default JVM is by typing this into the console:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

It will show you which JVM is currently selected and allow you to choose a different one as default.

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