Hi,

I ran across this problem while integrating some code that compiled correctly with Visual Cafe into NetBeans.

I had something like this:

public class Rule {

  public static final Expression exp;

  static {
    try {
      exp = new Expression("I could throw an exception");
    }

    catch (ExpressionFormatException e) {
      exp = null;
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

}
Under VC this compiled fine, but in NetBeans I get a compiler error stating that exp should be initialized or set in every constructor.  I could not find a way of getting around this...  except for re
moving the "final" keyword ! Any suggestions or is this a bug ?