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Java import problems
john fechon
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I was hired by a researcher at my college and my current task is to debug a java program that someone else wrote last semester. I'm not very familiar with java, but I managed and have fixed almost every problem. The remaining problem is the date. I want to be able to set a user specified date. I looked at the online documentation for java date, and it lists some constructors and other methods which do exactly what I need. But for some reason, those constructors can't be found. It can find the basic date() constructors. The same goes for other functions I've tried to use.
My question is this: I'm using Eclipse, is there a way to update or import the neccessary libraries/packages?
My question is this: I'm using Eclipse, is there a way to update or import the neccessary libraries/packages?
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1) make sure you're using java.util.Date, not java.sql.Date
2) all the constructors for Date (except Date()) are deprecated, and eclipse doesn't like that. Use the GregorianCalendar class
GregorianCalendar is another one of those classes/methods it can't find.
What is the error eclipse gives you? Do you get the error when you use the methods/classes, or when you do the import statement?
If I try using the date constructor, it says that its undefined.
If I try using GregorianCalendar, it says that it 'cannot be resolved or is not a type'.
I noticed a new version of eclipse is out (3.2.1), but this version should still have the date/calendar stuff.
1) Java comes in two flavors, the JDK and the JRE. The JDK (Java Development Kit) is what Eclipse should be using to compile, etc. The JRE is what non-developers use, it allows you to run java programs. You want to make sure you have JDK 1.5.0 or higher installed on your system, and that Eclipse is using it. You'd probably find it installed in C:\Program Files\Java. You'll see folders called jdk1.5.0_07 or jre1.5.0_07 so it should be simple to see which JDK you have installed, if you can find its folder.
2) Did you import the classes (import java.util.GregorianCalendar;)? Or fully qualifiy them, like: java.util.GregorianCalendar = new java.util.GregorianCalendar?
3) You might want to give NetBeans a try. I like it much better than Eclipse for Java, personally. Might make your problems go away. http://www.netbeans.org/
Other than that, I'm out of ideas as I'm no eclipse expert.
Importing and fully qualifying produce the same errors.
I think the person who originally wrote this may have done something wrong. Looking at the code alone makes me think this person wasn't the best person to be coding (instead of else statements, they threw exceptions instead).
I'm gonna install netbeans on this machine and see if i can transfer between the two. My main concern is that I won't be able to reconfigure the many files and directories this beast uses. Thanks for the help Bob, unless anyone has a better solution this thread is done.
private static final DateFormat dateFormatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a"); dateFormatter.format(new Date(System.currentTimeMillis())That works and returns a string in the form of the formatter. You don't need that, just thought I'd show you.Also, are you looking at the 1.5 javadocs?