I think he was joking, Eric. :) String, Exception, et al. work just fine in App Engine.
- Jason On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Eric Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you, the pointer to 1.2.5 was incorrect in Eclipse as you > suggested, and now all my massive number of compiler errors are gone > (thank god, and thank you again). > > What's curious is that I'm still using String and Exception and other > java.lang classes, and they work fine on the engine too, yet I've not > read anything in the documentation (yet) that indicates java.lang.* is > unsupported. How is this possible? How can it be Java without > supporting java.lang.*, which certainly seems to be doing? > > On Sep 22, 5:46 pm, Toby Reyelts <[email protected]> wrote: > > App Engine no longer supports classes from java.lang.*. You can work > around > > this by bundling your own versions of java.lang.String and > > java.lang.Exception with your webapp. > > > > Seriously though, please check that your Eclipse project is pointing to a > > valid 1.2.5 App Engine SDK installation. There is a known issue with the > > Eclipse IDE where it can sometimes too aggressively remove plugins which > it > > believes are no longer in use. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Eric Atkinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > I justed updated to App Engine 1.2.5 and now all my software is full > > > of compiler errors because it says app engine no longer support > > > classes like String, Exception, SAXParser in Java. Should I revert > > > back to an earlier app engine that did support them or is this really > > > the "new" app engine support? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
