A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
When the VM throws a NullPointerException it unhelpfully doesn't tell you the name of the symbol that is null. This is beyond annoying, especially when lines contain a number of possible suspects because of nested method calls. Surely the VM knows the name of the symbol that is null?

JUSTIFICATION :
This would save countless hours of debugging time if the VM would simply display the name of the null symbol.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
When a NullPointerException is thrown, please display the name of the null symbol.
ACTUAL -
Currently when a NullPointerException is thrown it just says NullPointerException but doesn't indicate which symbol is null.

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
Fire up a debugger and set a breakpoint at the reported line.