Re: XLint

From:
Lew <lew@nospam.lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:57:58 -0400
Message-ID:
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Eric Sosman wrote:

Francois Lionet wrote On 04/24/07 13:14,:

Hello all,

I have a big project with more than 700 files. I work under Netbeans. When I
compile them I get a message saying that "Some input files use unchecked or
unsafe operations." and I am told to recompile with the "-XLint:unchecked"
to know more.


There is no such option. Do you mean the "-Xlint" option?

OK, but I cannot find where to put this operator,


It's not an operator, it's a command-line option to the javac compiler.

I have looked in the ant file properties and no success.


It's not a file property, it's a command-line option to the javac compiler.

Can someone tell me where I can use this operator and findout what is wrong with my source code?


You have mixed generic and raw types in your code. Did you google for "Java
unhecked operations"?

You can either not mix raw types and generics, not always possible, or use
@SuppressWarnings to get rid of the message if you're doing it on purpose.
<http://mindprod.com/jgloss/annotations.html#SUPPRESSWARNINGS>

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Lew

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