According to The Java Tutorials, in Java SE 7 and later, you can use a String object in the switch statement's expression. 

String s = ...
switch(s){
    //do stuff
}

But is this true? I've installed the JRE and added it to the build path of my Eclipse project, but I'm getting the following compile-time error:

Cannot switch on a value of type String. Only convertible int values or enum constants are permitted

Also, I think I've got it configured correctly since I was able to use its java.nio.file.Files class, as well as JLayer.

Any ideas?

java eclipse string switch-statement java-7
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