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Bug 211438

Summary: Endless ClassFormatError exceptions in log
Product: java Reporter: Egor Ushakov <gorrus>
Component: CompilerAssignee: Dusan Balek <dbalek>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P4    
Version: 7.2   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:

Description Egor Ushakov 2012-04-19 09:52:54 UTC
Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201204150400)
Java: 1.6.0_30; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 20.5-b03
System: SunOS version 5.11 running on x86; UTF-8; en_US (nb)

Exceptions like this fills the log:
INFO [com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment]: Annotation processing error:
java.lang.ClassFormatError: org/openide/util/NbBundle$Messages
	at org.netbeans.modules.openide.util.NbBundleProcessor.getSupportedAnnotationTypes(NbBundleProcessor.java:83)
[catch] at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$ProcessorState.<init>(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:538)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$DiscoveredProcessors$ProcessorStateIterator.next(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:633)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.discoverAndRunProcs(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:726)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.access$1800(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:103)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$Round.run(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1057)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.doProcessing(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1122)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.processAnnotations(JavaCompiler.java:1140)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.processAnnotations(JavaCompiler.java:1036)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.enter(JavacTaskImpl.java:372)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.enter(JavacTaskImpl.java:313)
	at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.parsing.JavacParser.moveToPhase(JavacParser.java:581)
	at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.parsing.JavacParser.getResult(JavacParser.java:449)
	at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.parsing.JavacParser.getResult(JavacParser.java:164)
	at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.TaskProcessor.callGetResult(TaskProcessor.java:605)
	at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.SourceCache.getResult(SourceCache.java:224)
	at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.TaskProcessor$CompilationJob.run(TaskProcessor.java:717)
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Comment 1 Egor Ushakov 2012-04-19 13:31:47 UTC
same on Linux:
INFO [com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment]: Annotation processing error:
java.lang.ClassFormatError: org/netbeans/spi/debugger/ui/AttachType$ContextAware
        at java.lang.Class.getDeclaringClass(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.getEnclosingClass(Class.java:1085)
        at java.lang.Class.getCanonicalName(Class.java:1169)
        at org.netbeans.modules.debugger.ui.registry.DebuggerProcessor.getSupportedAnnotationTypes(DebuggerProcessor.java:86)
[catch] at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$ProcessorState.<init>(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:538)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$DiscoveredProcessors$ProcessorStateIterator.next(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:633)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.discoverAndRunProcs(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:726)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.access$1800(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:103)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$Round.run(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1057)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.doProcessing(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1122)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.processAnnotations(JavaCompiler.java:1140)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.processAnnotations(JavaCompiler.java:1036)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.enter(JavacTaskImpl.java:372)
        at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.indexing.SuperOnePassCompileWorker.compile(SuperOnePassCompileWorker.java:193)
        at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.indexing.JavaCustomIndexer.index(JavaCustomIndexer.java:221)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.spi.indexing.Indexable$MyAccessor$2.run(Indexable.java:158)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater.runIndexer(RepositoryUpdater.java:258)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.spi.indexing.Indexable$MyAccessor.index(Indexable.java:156)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work.doIndex(RepositoryUpdater.java:2397)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work.access$1500(RepositoryUpdater.java:2015)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work$2.run(RepositoryUpdater.java:2304)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work$2.run(RepositoryUpdater.java:2302)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.errors.TaskCache.refreshTransaction(TaskCache.java:541)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work.index(RepositoryUpdater.java:2302)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work.scanFiles(RepositoryUpdater.java:2793)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$FileListWork.getDone(RepositoryUpdater.java:3155)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work.doTheWork(RepositoryUpdater.java:2887)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Task._run(RepositoryUpdater.java:5115)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Task.access$4800(RepositoryUpdater.java:4808)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Task$2$1.run(RepositoryUpdater.java:5052)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.RunWhenScanFinishedSupport.performScan(RunWhenScanFinishedSupport.java:97)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Task$2.call(RepositoryUpdater.java:5048)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Task$2.call(RepositoryUpdater.java:5044)
        at org.netbeans.modules.masterfs.filebasedfs.utils.FileChangedManager.priorityIO(FileChangedManager.java:168)
        at org.netbeans.modules.masterfs.providers.ProvidedExtensions.priorityIO(ProvidedExtensions.java:360)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.Utilities.runPriorityIO(Utilities.java:72)
        at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Task.run(RepositoryUpdater.java:5044)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
        at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:1452)
        at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:2032)
Comment 2 Svata Dedic 2013-09-13 08:09:10 UTC
This is most probably caused by loading annotation processors compiled for J2SE 7 by IDE running on J2SE 6. Unfortunately, the compiler loads user classes (from either classpath or annotation path), so the fault is unavoidable in such case.

Perhaps the error should be printed at most once per processor class.

From the code in JavacProcessingEnvironment it seems, that such condition will stop compilation (parsing), so the parser / IDE features will be effectively broken; if so, some warning should be printed to the user, or the offending processors should be disabled ?

Please evaluate.
Comment 3 Martin Balin 2016-07-07 07:17:43 UTC
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue.

Thanks for your cooperation,
NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss