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3.1 is really old version. I'd suggest you to use newer one - 5.5 or upcoming 6.0. If it reproducible in one of these versions, please, provide more info - as source file you are trying to compile, information if the file is compilable in console using javac. Closing as wontfix for now since 3.1 branch is closed.