Need some help to get this compiled with javac -- Eclipse reports no errors

From:
Hendrik Maryns <hendrik_maryns@despammed.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:08:57 +0200
Message-ID:
<efan6p$km$1@newsserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
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Hi,

I have some issues where Eclipse compiles fine, but javac gives errors.
 This seems to be a bug in both javac and the jls, but I want to get my
classes compiled anyway, be it in a buggy compiler...

I distilled the main problem down to this:

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package closure;

import java.io.Serializable;

public class ChainedClosure<I> implements Closure<I>, Serializable {

    private final Closure<? super I>[] iClosures;

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static <I> Closure<I> getInstance(Closure<? super I>
closure1, Closure<? super I> closure2) {
        if (closure1 == null || closure2 == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Closures must not be null");
        }
        Closure<I>[] closures = new Closure[] { closure1, closure2 };
        return new ChainedClosure<I>(closures);
    }

    public ChainedClosure(Closure<? super I>[] closures) {
        super();
        iClosures = closures;
    }

    public void execute(I input) {
        for (int i = 0; i < iClosures.length; i++) {
            iClosures[i].execute(input);
        }
    }

}
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package closure;

public interface Closure<I> {

    public void execute(I input);

}
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package closure;

public class ClosureUtils {

    public static <I> Closure<I> chainedClosure(Closure<? super I>
closure1, Closure<? super I> closure2) {
        return ChainedClosure.getInstance(closure1, closure2);
    }

}

Eclipse compiles this without problems, javac gives the following error:

javac -classpath
/home/hendrik/workspace/test\ Java/ collections/ClosureUtils.java
collections/ClosureUtils.java:8: <I>getInstance(collections.Closure<?
super I>,collections.Closure<? super I>) in
collections.functors.ChainedClosure cannot be applied to
(collections.Closure<capture of ? super I>,collections.Closure<capture
of ? super I>)
        return ChainedClosure.getInstance(closure1, closure2);
                             ^
1 error

See Eclipse bugs 158531 and 158519, and java bugs 6302954, 6369605 and
6369608.

I???d be grateful for some hints on how to get this compiled with javac.

TIA, H.

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Hendrik Maryns
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