Description Andrew Clement 2010-12-13 12:48:04 EST

reported on the mailing list.  This works on the command line but fails in the IDE:

I tried to access the method from sub class. But it show compiler error. Am I doing anything working here?

public class Purchase{
}
//
aspect PurchaseFinder{
    //Compile error code
    static <U extends Purchase> U Purchase.find(){
        ......
     }
}

public class HardwarePurchase extend Purchase{
  public static test(){
     HardwarePurchase test =  HardwarePurchase .<HardwarePurchase >find();  // this code is not working 
  }
}

Error- The method find() of type Purchase is not generic; it cannot be parameterized with arguments <HardwarePurchase >.

But if I move the static function (find) code to the Purchase class from PurchaseFinder aspect then it works fine.

Working code-
public class Purchase{
     static <U extends Purchase> U find(){
        ......
     }
}