unclosed string literal

String literals must be enclosed in quotation marks.1 This error occurs if you fail to

terminate the literal with quotation marks. Fortunately, the syntax of JAVA requires

that a string literal appear entirely on one line so the error message appears on the

same line as the mistake. If you need a string literal that is longer than a single line,

create two or more literals and concatenate them with +:

String longString = "This is first half of a long string " + "and this is the second half.";

ECLIPSE: String literal is not properly closed by a double-quote. In ECLIPSE you

can write a string literal of arbitrary length and the environment will break the string

and insert the + automatically.

1A literal is a source-code representation of a value; most literals are of primitive types like int or char, but there are also literals of type String and the literal null of any reference type.