The “import java.util.function cannot be resolved” error

Question

I\'m trying to run this practice script from the standard Oracle Java tutorials.

This seems to be a common error and I\'ve used SO resources to make attempts to fix

Answer 1

I ran into this while trying to use Java 9 with Eclipse Oxygen. Eclipse claimed that I was using less than Java 1.8 and asked if I wanted to use 1.8. Saying yes solved the problem, but led to this error message later on.

I went in to Window => Preferences => Java => Compiler and saw that this had been changed to 1.8, so I changed it back to 9 and everything seems to be working now.

Answer 2

Ran into this problem when the version I was using in the below properties was <1.8. Updating my POM to a version >1.8 resolved my issue.

<properties>
     <maven.compiler.source>1.9</maven.compiler.source>
     <maven.compiler.target>1.9</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>