Error with selenium.WebElement.sendKeys()

Question

I am putting together a small app to perform automated checkouts on a Magento site, using Selenium WebDriver in Java. I\'m working on learning Java, so I\'m adamant on getti

Answer 1

I discovered another way to work around this. I was not specifying the version of Java to compile for, so Maven was compiling for an older version. I added this to my pom.xml:

  
    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-compiler-plugin
    2.0.2
    
      1.5
      1.5
    
  

That allows me to just a literal string "SAMPLE" in sendKeys() and it works fine.