LinkedList in JSP

hi -

need some help in jsp. i am just a beginner. i have a linkedlist for Float objects in JSP. but, everytime i am using the following statement it is giving an error:

LinkedList<Float> fileFitness = new LinkedList<Float>();

there are the following errors:

An error occurred at line: 198 in the jsp file: /search.jsp
Generated servlet error:
Syntax error on token "<", invalid AssignmentOperator

An error occurred at line: 198 in the jsp file: /search.jsp
Generated servlet error:
Syntax error on token "=", != expected

An error occurred at line: 198 in the jsp file: /search.jsp
Generated servlet error:
Syntax error on token "<", ( expected

An error occurred at line: 198 in the jsp file: /search.jsp
Generated servlet error:
Syntax error on token "(", invalid Expression

now when i have removed the <Float> and am using a simple linkedlist of objects, after using remove() i am unable to convert those objects to Float to use their values. no my code is:

LinkedList fileFitness = new LinkedList();
...
Float temp = fileFitness.remove();

now it is giving the error:

An error occurred at line: 198 in the jsp file: /search.jsp
Generated servlet error:
Type mismatch: cannot convert from Object to Float

can anyone help please?

thanks.
siddhartha

Which version of Java are you using?

very sorry madcowdzz for the long gap .. i am using java 1.5 ..

thanks.
siddhartha