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Build: NetBeans IDE 8.1 (Build 201510222201) VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, 24.79-b02, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.7.0_79-b15 OS: Windows 8 User Comments: GUEST: <Forne
Created attachment 161796 [details] stacktrace
Running NetBeans on Java 7 while trying to use components built on Java 8. Java 7 virtual machine cannot load Java 8 classes. To fix this just run your NetBeans on Java 8. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 154197 ***