Help with java development (Geany)

[godsotherhand]

So i am using Geany to learn Java, but when i

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for(int value:a)
         System.out.println(value);


(a is the vector that i want to see on my screen)
i get an error:

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Systax error, 'for each' statements are only available if source level is 1.5


What do i need to do? (using LMDE )

[xenopeek]

Not sure, but this message means the Java compiler, not Geany, wants you to configure you are programming in Java 5 or above (a.k.a. 1.5). With Java 5 having reached end-of-life back in 2009 IIRC, this seems a bit silly.

Which Java version are you using, and how have you configured Geany to run Java?

Java version:

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java -version

Are there alternative Java versions installed?

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update-alternatives --list java

[DrHu]

This might help if you are code checking
http://ideone.com/clone/SZtPa
--also it could be better to use an ide, which will offer more help code or examples; such as netbeans
http://netbeans.org/

I understand that an ide is supposed to speed up development/coding, but by working only in the code language may utimately be more effective as you learn more directly about the language features

[godsotherhand]

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$ java -version
java version "1.5.0"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.6.1


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$ update-alternatives --list java
/usr/bin/gij-4.6
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java


I only installed what I could find related to java from the software manager (all the tutorials I found online were made for Java on Windows, so i didnt really knew what to install here).

DrHu, what do u mean working only in the code language?

[xenopeek]

You may want to change the default Java to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java. To do so, run:

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sudo update-alternatives --config java