# I am moving from Elasticsearch 2.3.1 to 5.2.2 but getting some error in my java code

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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 2, 2017, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-moving-from-elasticsearch-2-3-1-to-5-2-2-but-getting-some-error-in-my-java-code/77132 "2017-03-02T11:37:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ahmad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@ahmad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ahmad)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-moving-from-elasticsearch-2-3-1-to-5-2-2-but-getting-some-error-in-my-java-code/77132/1 "2017-03-02T11:37:54Z")

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error: cannot find symbol  
[Error] method settingsBuilder()  
[ERROR] location: class Settings

Any help will be greatly appreciated. 🙂

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-moving-from-elasticsearch-2-3-1-to-5-2-2-but-getting-some-error-in-my-java-code/77132/2 "2017-03-02T15:15:58Z")

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Moving what? Java app?

May be share your code?

FWIW you should read the Java API documentation which tells how to build a Java transport client for new versions.

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**Author:** ![ahmad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@ahmad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ahmad)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-moving-from-elasticsearch-2-3-1-to-5-2-2-but-getting-some-error-in-my-java-code/77132/3 "2017-03-03T07:42:37Z")

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@dadoonet thanks for looking into this. I am able to fix it now. I was not properly using 5.2.2 java API while upgrading.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-moving-from-elasticsearch-2-3-1-to-5-2-2-but-getting-some-error-in-my-java-code/77132/4 "2017-03-31T07:42:51Z")

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