we encountered a parse error: Encountered "public static class" at line 56, column 5. Was expecting one of: "boolean" ... "byte" ... "char" ... "double" ... "float" ... "int" ... "long" ... "short" ... "@" ... "public" "public" ... "public" "static" "public" ... "public" "static" "static" ... "public" "static" "protected" ... "public" "static" "private" ... "public" "static" "final" ... "public" "static" "abstract" ... "public" "static" "synchronized" ... "public" "static" "native" ... "public" "static" "transient" ... "public" "static" "volatile" ... "public" "static" "strictfp" ... "public" "static" "@" ... "public" "static" "enum" ... "public" "protected" ... "public" "private" ... "public" "static" "<" ... "public" "static" "void" ... "public" "static" "boolean" ... "public" "static" "char" ... "public" "static" "byte" ... "public" "static" "short" ... "public" "static" "int" ... "public" "static" "long" ... "public" "static" "float" ... "public" "static" "double" ... "public" "static" <IDENTIFIER> ... <IDENTIFIER> ... the source it failed on is: [...] public interface Document { /** document category description type */ @DescriptionType("org.edorasframework.filestore.core.documentCategoryDescriptionType")//$NON-NLS-1$ public static class Category { } [...] the "public static class" line seems to be too unuasal