Question

I’m getting this weird compilation error with eclipse in the following code block. I’ve included the necessary jars and also tried restarting eclipse but no avail.

 public class ControlServlet extends HttpServlet {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
ResourceBundle rb1;// error on this line
rb1 = ResourceBundle.getBundle("connection_config");
Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ControlServlet.class);

The error message displayed is:

Multiple markers at this line
- Syntax error on token ";", , expected
- Watchpoint:ControlServlet [access and 
 modification] - rb1.

Any idea why this could be happening ? And how I could work around this would be helpful.

Answer 1

You are getting this error because you can not write assignment statement and declaration as 2 statements in a class (outside of any method or static block with class variables).

So your error is actually on this statement:

rb1 = ResourceBundle.getBundle("connection_config");

You can not write such a statement in class without surrounding static/method block. cannot write outside of any method or any initialization block (static or non-static). So you have to combine your 2 statements into 1 like:

ResourceBundle rb1 = ResourceBundle.getBundle("connection_config");