I apologize for the following typo: "If I uncomment the offending line",
which I meant to say, "If I comment the offending line".
SamadLotia wrote:
>
> Hello fellow Maven users,
> I have been trying to compile an OSGi project created using the PAX
> scripts. In the source file ConsoleTaskManager.java on line 15 I have
> written:
>
> System.out.println(java.lang.String.format("%s", "Why will not this
> compile?"));
>
> When I type "mvn install", I get the following error message:
>
> [INFO] [pax:compile]
> [INFO] Compiling 5 source files to
> /Users/slotia/src/csplugins-slotia/work-pir-api/target/classes
> [INFO] [recovering meta-data]
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Compilation failure
> /Users/slotia/src/csplugins-slotia/work-pir-api/src/main/java/org/cytoscape/work/internal/ConsoleTaskManager.java:[15,41]
> cannot find symbol
> symbol : method format(java.lang.String,java.lang.String)
> location: class java.lang.String
>
> /Users/slotia/src/csplugins-slotia/work-pir-api/src/main/java/org/cytoscape/work/internal/ConsoleTaskManager.java:[15,41]
> cannot find symbol
> symbol : method format(java.lang.String,java.lang.String)
> location: class java.lang.String
>
> If I uncomment the offending line, the project compiles fine. I also wrote
> a 5-line class file with the offending line, and it compiles fine with
> javac. This suggests that there probably isn't a problem with the JDK. I
> have tried to clean the project, which deletes the target directory,
> delete the runner directory, and delete the .m2 directory, but it still
> does not compile.
>
> Here are some specs of my system:
> OS: Mac OS X 10.5.6
> Java: 1.5.0_16-b06-284 32-bit
> Maven: 2.0.9
>
> I am completely lost as to how to fix this. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated. Thank you.
>
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