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This issue was reported manually by pjiricka. It already has 2 duplicates Build: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build web-main-3826-on-100910) VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, 16.3-b01-279, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.6.0_20-b02-279-10M3065 OS: Mac OS X User Comments: pjiricka: Find usages for a static Java field. athompson: tried to rename a field Stacktrace: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$VarSymbol cannot be cast to javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement at org.netbeans.modules.web.el.refactoring.ELWhereUsedQuery.prepare(ELWhereUsedQuery.java:119) at org.netbeans.modules.refactoring.api.AbstractRefactoring.pluginsPrepare2(AbstractRefactoring.java:419) at org.netbeans.modules.refactoring.api.AbstractRefactoring.pluginsPrepare(AbstractRefactoring.java:403) at org.netbeans.modules.refactoring.api.AbstractRefactoring.prepare(AbstractRefactoring.java:218) at org.netbeans.modules.refactoring.spi.impl.ParametersPanel$Prepare.run(ParametersPanel.java:827) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:1426)
Created attachment 101997 [details] stacktrace
This seems to be fixed, or at least I wasn't able to reproduce. I've added some additional checking for element types not too long ago, so that change might have fixed this. Please reopen if this is still reproducible for you.