The Forte4J IDE will not start when using the Merlin JDK.

Forte4j IE 2.0, build 1160 was the test platform and the latest merlin test was
performed with build b58.

The IDE fails with the following exception.....

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException
        at $Proxy2.propertyChange(Unknown Source)
        at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(PropertyChangeSupport.java:255)
        at org.netbeans.core.NbTopManager.firePropertyChange(NbTopManager.java:639)
        at org.netbeans.core.NbProjectOperation.setProject(NbProjectOperation.java:160)
        at org.netbeans.core.NbProjectOperation.openOrCreateProject(NbProjectOperation.java:198)
        at org.netbeans.core.NonGui.run(NonGui.java:400)
        at org.netbeans.core.Main.run(Main.java:191)
        at org.openide.TopManager.initializeTopManager(TopManager.java:120)
        at org.openide.TopManager.getDefault(TopManager.java:81)
        at org.netbeans.core.Main.main(Main.java:275)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor5.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:306)
        at org.openide.util.WeakListener13$ProxyListener.invoke(WeakListener13.java:121)
        ... 10 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.netbeans.core.execution.TopSecurityManager$1.run(TopSecurityManager.java:313)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at org.netbeans.core.execution.TopSecurityManager.isSecureClass(TopSecurityManager.java:327)
        at org.netbeans.core.execution.TopSecurityManager.getForeignClassLoader(TopSecurityManager.java:284)
        at org.netbeans.core.execution.TopSecurityManager.isForeignClassLoader(TopSecurityManager.java:244)
        at org.netbeans.core.execution.TopSecurityManager.checkRead(TopSecurityManager.java:150)
        at java.io.File.exists(File.java:550)
        at org.netbeans.modules.java.FastJavacCompilerType.isThereFile(FastJavacCompilerType.java:113)
        at org.netbeans.modules.java.FastJavacCompilerType.isFastJavacPlatform(FastJavacCompilerType.java:106)
        at org.netbeans.modules.java.settings.JavaSettings.propertyChange(JavaSettings.java:282)
        ... 13 more