Java Error Messages and Solutions

A local variable, i.e., method level variable or a parameter cannot be declared as static or public/private/protected. So local variables...

The reason for the error "This method requires a body instead of a semicolon" is same as described in the post  missing method ...

Java error "interface methods cannot have body" occurs when body of the method within an interface is defined. See the code belo...

The Java error "invalid method declaration; return type required" can occur for any of the following reasons: 1. You are trying ...

If you try to access a non static member of a class from a static context, you will see ‘non-static method … cannot be referenced from a sta...

This error message is shown when the statements are not written in proper place. Most often, mistakenly, we may write the processing task (f...

'Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: main' is a run time error message. If the main method is not prop...

If we declare a variable in a method more than once than we see ' is already defined'. Find out the variable for which the message ...

If we put a ; (semicolon) after the method header (i.e., before starting the method body) when we are defining a concrete method (which meth...

“cannot find symbol” or “cannot resolve symbol” is the most common error message which the programmers get from the compiler. However this e...