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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

make java buildpath reference to greater than or equal to java 1.5

or you try to add the "import java.util.List" statement then you can see that

eclipse is saying it is conflicting with some other List type

for example it may be conflicting with com.lowagie.xx.xxx.List etc try to avoid these import

statements