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netbeans 8.0.1 patch2 Windows 8.1 JDK 1.7 for compiling and JDK 8 for running NB I was compiling a suite of modules with Ant and got this exception java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.tools.jdi.EventRequestManagerImpl.request(EventRequestManagerImpl.java:943) at com.sun.tools.jdi.EventSetImpl$EventImpl.<init>(EventSetImpl.java:88) at com.sun.tools.jdi.EventSetImpl$ThreadedEventImpl.<init>(EventSetImpl.java:175) at com.sun.tools.jdi.EventSetImpl$ClassPrepareEventImpl.<init>(EventSetImpl.java:367) at com.sun.tools.jdi.EventSetImpl.createEvent(EventSetImpl.java:741) at com.sun.tools.jdi.EventSetImpl.build(EventSetImpl.java:628) at com.sun.tools.jdi.EventQueueImpl.removeUnfiltered(EventQueueImpl.java:211) at com.sun.tools.jdi.EventQueueImpl.remove(EventQueueImpl.java:96) at com.sun.tools.jdi.EventQueueImpl.remove(EventQueueImpl.java:82) at org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.jdi.event.EventQueueWrapper.remove(EventQueueWrapper.java:74) [catch] at org.netbeans.modules.debugger.jpda.util.Operator$1.run(Operator.java:216) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Defect in JDI. Can not be fixed in NetBeans. https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8033369