Upgraded to jde-2.2.9beta9.1 on GNU Emacs 20.7.2 and the color hightlighting is gone.
Here are the versions of everything I have installed. ecb-1.41/ eieio-0.17beta4/ elib-1.0/ jde-2.2.9beta9.1/ semantic-1.4beta13/ speedbar-0.14beta2/ I have the global font lock set. (global-font-lock-mode t) Plus the overlay fix. I have also deleted all *.elc files and tried JDEE again. But still no color hightlighting. Everything else seems to work okay in JDEE. Hightlighting for cperl and cc-mode work fine. Any clues as to what might be causing this? J. Syre