Eclipse compilation error The hierarchy of the type Class name is inconsistent

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I have downloaded some open source software written in Java and tried to compile it using Eclipse  I got the error   The hierarchy of the type  Class name  is inconsistent  in some files  What causes these errors and how do I fix them

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It was definitely because missing dependencies that were not in my maven pom.xml.

For example, I wanted to create integration tests for my implementation of the broadleaf ecommerce demo site.

I had included a broadleaf jar with integration tests from broadleaf commerce in order to reuse their configuration files and base testing classes. That project had other testing dependencies that I had not included and I received the "inconsistent hierarchy" error.

After copying the "test dependencies" from broadleaf/pom.xml and the associated properties variables that provided the versions for each dependency in broadleaf/pom.xml, the error went away.

The properties were:

    <geb.version>0.9.3</geb.version>
    <spock.version>0.7-groovy-2.0</spock.version>
    <selenium.version>2.42.2</selenium.version>
    <groovy.version>2.1.8</groovy.version>

The dependencies were:

<dependency>
            <groupId>org.broadleafcommerce</groupId>
            <artifactId>integration</artifactId>
            <type>jar</type>
            <classifier>tests</classifier>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.broadleafcommerce</groupId>
            <artifactId>broadleaf-framework</artifactId>
            <version>${blc.version}</version><!--$NO-MVN-MAN-VER$ -->
            <classifier>tests</classifier>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.icegreen</groupId>
            <artifactId>greenmail</artifactId>
            <version>1.3</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.11</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
            <artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
            <version>2.5.1</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
            <artifactId>easymockclassextension</artifactId>
            <version>2.4</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
            <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
            <version>5.9</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <classifier>jdk15</classifier>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
            <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
            <version>${groovy.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.gebish</groupId>
            <artifactId>geb-core</artifactId>
            <version>${geb.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.gebish</groupId>
            <artifactId>geb-spock</artifactId>
            <version>${geb.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.spockframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spock-core</artifactId>
            <version>${spock.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-support</artifactId>
            <version>${selenium.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-firefox-driver</artifactId>
            <version>${selenium.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
            <version>${selenium.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
  <!-- Logging -->
            <dependency>
                <groupId>log4j</groupId>
                <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
                <version>1.2.12</version>
                <type>jar</type>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
                <version>1.6.1</version>
                <type>jar</type>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
                <version>1.6.1</version>
                <type>jar</type>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
                <version>1.6.1</version>
                <type>jar</type>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
                <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
                <version>2.3.1</version>
                <type>jar</type>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>

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The problem may be that you have included incorrect jars  I had the same problem and the reason was that I had included incorrect default JRE library in the build path of the project  I had installed Java with another version and was including JRE files of Java with a different version   I had installed JRE 1 6 in my system and was having JRE library 1 7 included in the build path due to previously installed Java  May be you can check if the JRE library that you have included in the build path is of correct version ie  of Java version that you have installed in your system

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You should clean the project   or restart Eclipse

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Check your errors  tab  markers    I had also the following error      Archive for required library in project cannot be read      and when that was fixed the  inconsistent-error  disappeared   Actually I had added jars to the build path  but for some reason they could not be read with error     Archive for required library in project cannot be read or is not a valid ZIP file   So instead I added them as  External Jars   That helped and all compilation problems were no more

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One more case I have had  Give the correct project path  and import it to  eclipse   Then go to Project--  Clean --  Clean all projects

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