Timing of revalidation of JComponent changed and this now caused NPEs in Forte for Java. To reproduce check attached simple example on Merlin beta refresh b70 (Note on jdk1.3.1 and on Merlin beta Refresh b69 this works) and the NPE is thrown. The only thing we do is that we add some JComponents in constructor of JPanel and in isValid we ask to some value. In b70 changed the behaviour so now is revalidate called before all components are initialized. Please we need this to have fixed ASAP.