[kepler-dev] Compiling Ptolemy with Java 1.4.2

[Dan Higgins]

Hi Christopher,
    Our nightly build of Kepler is failing in compiling Ptolemy. The 
error message is:

    [javac]                                  ^
    [javac] 
C:\work\ptII\build\src\ptolemy\data\LongMatrixToken.java:241: conver
t(ptolemy.data.Token) in ptolemy.data.LongMatrixToken cannot override 
convert(pt
olemy.data.Token) in ptolemy.data.MatrixToken; attempting to use 
incompatible re
turn type
    [javac] found   : ptolemy.data.LongMatrixToken
    [javac] required: ptolemy.data.MatrixToken
    [javac]     public static LongMatrixToken convert(Token token)
    [javac]                                   ^
    [javac] C:\work\ptII\build\src\ptolemy\data\LongToken.java:116: 
convert(ptol
emy.data.Token) in ptolemy.data.LongToken cannot override 
convert(ptolemy.data.T
oken) in ptolemy.data.ScalarToken; attempting to use incompatible return 
type
    [javac] found   : ptolemy.data.LongToken
    [javac] required: ptolemy.data.ScalarToken
    [javac]     public static LongToken convert(Token token) throws 
IllegalActio
nException {

.....

Strangely enough this error occurs ONLY when compiling with Java 1.4.2. 
If I use Java 1.5, Ptolemy compiles with no error messages.

Did you guys change something in the Token convert code recently, and 
Are you using Java 1.5 exclusively now? It would seem better if we could 
still compile with 1.4.2 (or maybe I am wrong here about the Java 
versioning being a problem)

Dan

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