Need help getting Scanner to work in Eclipse/Java-1.5-Sun

**ZephyrXero** · September 23rd, 2006

I really need the ability to use the Scanner library in Eclipse. I've been trying to make it work for about a month now with no luck. It's how my Java teacher is making us handle input, so I can't use any other methods. Apparently Scanner was added with Java 1.5, yet Eclipse is built to work with Java 1.4 in Ubuntu. I've followed this guide to fix that, but I still can't get it to recognize it. I've even tried it under both Dapper and Edgy too. I know Scanner works fine in Windows (what my teacher unfortunately uses), but I reeaaalllly, don't want to have to do it that way.

Any ideas? Please....
Thanks!

**gmclachl** · September 23rd, 2006

Did you change the java library in eclipse to point to 1.5?

George

**ZephyrXero** · September 27th, 2006

Yes

**gmclachl** · September 27th, 2006

So if you open up the terminal and type java -version

you should get output similar to

java version "1.5.0_08"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_08-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.5.0_08-b03, mixed mode)

George

**DeadEyes** · September 27th, 2006

From the main menu go Project->Propeties
with the treeview on the left select Java Compiler
On the right is your Compiler compliance level set to 5.0?

**ZephyrXero** · October 22nd, 2006

To answer both of the questions above, yes....

I ended up just having to download the binary from the Eclipse site, and now it works fine. I've also found that it's much faster since it's compiled against the actual Sun JRE instead of GCJ