A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
The example in BreakIterator has a typo that makes it not compile:

             if (Character.isLetter(text.codePointAt(p))
                 return last;

the first line is missing a ')'


URL OF FAULTY DOCUMENTATION :
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/text/BreakIterator.html