Errors after putting BEAST2 into a Java project

This tutorial, section Put BEAST2 into a Java project shows how to put BEAST2 into a Java project. This does not always work out well.

Ideally, you'd see this:

This tutorial shows how to deal with this:

• If you just want to fix the error, go to the Fix the error section.
• If you are interested in how to find out the problem, visit the How to find out section

Fix the error

Do Project | Properties, then Java compiler.

Set it to 1.6:

Click Apply. The project will request a rebuild, click Yes.

Click Apply again. All errors are gone now.

How to find out

We zoom in on the first error: beast.core.Logger.LogFileMode cannot be resolved.

We visit the first error in beast.core.Logger.LogFileMode. Here we see beast.core.Input.Validate cannot be resolved.

We visit the first error in beast.core.Input.Validate. Here we see there is a syntax error and that we need JRE 1.5 or higher.