javac error: inconvertible types with generics?

Question

There are several other SO questions talking about generics compiling OK w/ Eclipse\'s compiler but not javac (i.e. Java: Generics handled differenlty in Eclipse and javac a

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and upgraded from jdk1.6.0_16 to jdk1.6.0_23 and it went away without any code changes.