Is it not because you are passing an instance of a super class while it
expects an instance of a derived class?
- Venkat
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:28:45 +0100, Michael Schuerig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Try to compile this:
>
> package test;
>
> import org.apache.axis.constants.Style;
>
> public class ConstantsVsEnum {
> public static final Style myStyle = Style.DOCUMENT;
>
> private static void styleTaker(Style style) {
> }
>
> public static void main( String[] args ) {
> styleTaker(myStyle);
> styleTake(Style.DOCUMENT);
> }
> }
>
> These are the errors you'll probably get:
>
> test/ConstantsVsEnum.java:7: incompatible types
> found : org.apache.axis.enum.Style
> required: org.apache.axis.constants.Style
> public static final Style myStyle = Style.DOCUMENT;