Customer running windows NT.
Has downloaded JAVA from the internet site.
This includes JDK and Java Workshop
Latest revision that is available (as of 1/28/97)

Tries to compile as given, the application, chart.java.

Location:

http://www.javasoft.com/applets/BarChart/example1.html


Gets the following compiler error when trying to compile:


at Sun.tools.javac.Main.main(Main.java:463)
error: An exception has occurred in the compiler; please file a bug report
(###@###.###).
1 error
[done in 3244 ms]

Issues this command:

D:\>javac Chart >d:\tmp.txt
java.lang.NullPointerException:
at java.text.MessgeFormat.format(MessageFormat.java:380)
at java.text.MessgeFormat.format(MessageFormat.java:164)
at java.text.Format.format(Format.java:72)
at java.text.MessgeFormat.format(MessageFormat.java:148)
at sun.tool.javac.Main.getText(Main.java:137)
at sun.tool.javac.Main.getText(Main.java:123)
at sun.tool.javac.Main.getText(Main.java:119)
at sun.tool.javac.BatchEnvironment.parseFile(BatchEnvironment.java:222)
at sun.tool.javac.Main.compile(Main.java:261)
at sun.tool.javac.Main.main(Main.java:463)
error: An exception has occurred in the compiler: please file a bug report (###@###.###).
1 error
[done in 1993 ms]