java swing component cannot be resolved

Question

I took the following code from a tutorial:

import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.Date;

public class SwingGUI {

    public static void main( String[] args          


        

Answer 1

I faced the same issue and found that my project was using the Java 8 libraries. I installed the Java 7 library, added the same to the project properties by referencing the library from the installed C:\Program Files\Java folder and the error was gone.

Looks like, the new Java 8 version may a different way to resolve the swing component.