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I believe that this is likely the cause of my installation of netbeans freezing recently while scanning the classpath. That is to say, the scanning of my classpath never completes. It remains halted at around 33% java.lang.NullPointerException at org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil.toFile(FileUtil.java:381) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.parser.ECRequestDescImpl.getFileName(EC RequestDescImpl.java:168) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.parser.ECRequestDescImpl.getCompileAndS ourcePath(ECRequestDescImpl.java:135) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.parser.ECRequestDescImpl.<init>(ECReque stDescImpl.java:68) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.jmiimpl.javamodel.ResourceImpl$ErrorLis t.initCheck(ResourceImpl.java:1466) at org.netbeans.modules.javacore.jmiimpl.javamodel.ResourceImpl$ErrorLis t.size(ResourceImpl.java:1479) at org.netbeans.modules.java.JavaEditor.refreshAnnotations(JavaEditor.ja va:429) at org.netbeans.modules.java.JavaEditor.access$500(JavaEditor.java:95) at org.netbeans.modules.java.JavaEditor$2.run(JavaEditor.java:275) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:499) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java :932)
Reorganization of java component
This issue is not valid in current builds any more. Java support was completely redesigned in 6.0 time frame. Please use NetBeans 6.0 and later.