Eclipse compilation error: The hierarchy of the type 'Class name' is inconsistent

Question

I have downloaded some open source software written in Java and tried to compile it using Eclipse. I got the error: \"The hierarchy of the type \'Class name\' is inc

Answer 1

It was definitely because missing dependencies that were not in my maven pom.xml.

For example, I wanted to create integration tests for my implementation of the broadleaf ecommerce demo site.

I had included a broadleaf jar with integration tests from broadleaf commerce in order to reuse their configuration files and base testing classes. That project had other testing dependencies that I had not included and I received the "inconsistent hierarchy" error.

After copying the "test dependencies" from broadleaf/pom.xml and the associated properties variables that provided the versions for each dependency in broadleaf/pom.xml, the error went away.

The properties were:

    0.9.3
    0.7-groovy-2.0
    2.42.2
    2.1.8

The dependencies were:

            org.broadleafcommerce
            integration
            jar
            tests
            test
        
        
            org.broadleafcommerce
            broadleaf-framework
            ${blc.version}
            tests
        
        
            com.icegreen
            greenmail
            1.3
            jar
            test
        
        
            junit
            junit
            4.11
            test
        
        
            org.easymock
            easymock
            2.5.1
            jar
            test
        
        
            org.easymock
            easymockclassextension
            2.4
            jar
            test
        
        
            org.testng
            testng
            5.9
            jar
            jdk15
            test
        
        
            org.codehaus.groovy
            groovy-all
            ${groovy.version}
            test
        
        
            org.gebish
            geb-core
            ${geb.version}
            test
        
        
            org.gebish
            geb-spock
            ${geb.version}
            test
        
        
            org.spockframework
            spock-core
            ${spock.version}
            test
        
        
            org.seleniumhq.selenium
            selenium-support
            ${selenium.version}
            test
        
        
            org.seleniumhq.selenium
            selenium-firefox-driver
            ${selenium.version}
            test
        
        
            org.seleniumhq.selenium
            selenium-chrome-driver
            ${selenium.version}
            test
        
  
            
                log4j
                log4j
                1.2.12
                jar
                test
            
            
                org.slf4j
                slf4j-log4j12
                1.6.1
                jar
                test
            
            
                org.slf4j
                jcl-over-slf4j
                1.6.1
                jar
                test
            
            
                org.slf4j
                slf4j-api
                1.6.1
                jar
                test
            
            
                org.hsqldb
                hsqldb
                2.3.1
                jar
                test