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Question

I have a strange problem with Eclipse Galileo.
I set Java 1.6 as my JRE. On this line of code

List templates = new ArrayList ();

I see

Answer 1

Sometimes it's an eclipse hiccup and eclipse -clean plus refreshing all projects helps.

Edit

Does it change anything when you replace your code with:

java.util.List templates = new java.util.ArrayList();

or even

java.util.List