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Java Local Development Environments Exploring Your IDE Check your IntelliJ IDEA Installation

Paul Harris
Paul Harris
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Received a funky error message

Information:Using javac 1.8.0_77 to compile java sources Information:java: Errors occurred while compiling module 'Systemizer' Information:6/27/2016 2:04 PM - Compilation completed with 1 error and 3 warnings in 529ms Warning:java: source value 1.5 is obsolete and will be removed in a future release Warning:java: target value 1.5 is obsolete and will be removed in a future release Warning:java: To suppress warnings about obsolete options, use -Xlint:-options. C:\Users\pauharri\IdeaProjects\Systemizer\src\com\teamtreehouse\Main.java Error:(12, 75) java: cannot find symbol symbol: method stringPropertyNames() location: class java.util.Properties

package com.teamtreehouse;

import java.util.Set; import java.util.TreeSet;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.printf("This is the classpath:  %s %n",
            System.getProperty("java.class.path"));
    Set<String> propNames = new TreeSet<String>(System.getProperties().stringPropertyNames());
    for (String propertyName : propNames) {
        System.out.printf("%s is %s %n",
                propertyName,
                System.getProperty(propertyName));
    }

}

}

1 Answer

The stringPropertyNames() method is available since Java 1.6 version. However, you seem to be targeting 1.5 version for your project, where you should be targeting 1.6 or above version.

Looking at the messages, I presume you are using IntelliJ IDEA for your development. Just check whether your "Project bytecode version" is set to 1.6 or above by navigating the following:

File -> Settings -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Compiler -> Java Compiler -> Project bytecode version: -> 1.8

On changing the above setting, this error should go away.