FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
Throws the following exception:
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/nio/charset/IllegalCharsetNameException
         at java.io.PrintStream.toCharset(Unkown Source)
         at java.io.PrintStream.<init>(Unkown Source)
         at java.lang.System.newPrintStream(Unkown Source)
         at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(Unkown Source)

ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

EXTRA RELEVANT SYSTEM CONFIGURATION :
We setup this plain Windows 7 x64 VM to reproduce a Java Problem which exists on all our Windows 7 machines in case of the x86 JRE 8u25 installation

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
One of our testers wasn't able to start our java webstart application by using the new Java 8u25 32bit VM. Therefore we setup a plain Windows 7 x64 VM to reproduce that problem. We only installed the JRE 8u25 32bit version.

The problem still exists on our plain Windows 7 VM and in addition we get the following exception if we call java -version:

Throws the following exception:
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/nio/charset/IllegalCharsetNameException
         at java.io.PrintStream.toCharset(Unkown Source)
         at java.io.PrintStream.<init>(Unkown Source)
         at java.lang.System.newPrintStream(Unkown Source)
         at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(Unkown Source)


The JRE 8u25 x64 installation works without any problems.

From my point of view is this bug a REGRESSION, give it a high priority.

REGRESSION. Last worked in version 8u20

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
1) Setup a plain Windows 7 64bit VM

2) try to start the Webstart example:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/webstart/examplesIndex.html
-> a dialog comes up with the following message: "A Java Exception has occured."

3) execute java -version from the command line
-> the following exception will be thrown:
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/nio/charset/IllegalCharsetNameException
         at java.io.PrintStream.toCharset(Unkown Source)
         at java.io.PrintStream.<init>(Unkown Source)
         at java.lang.System.newPrintStream(Unkown Source)
         at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(Unkown Source)


ERROR MESSAGES/STACK TRACES THAT OCCUR :
1) start webstart -> A Java Exception has occured
2) java -version ->
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/nio/charset/IllegalCharsetNameException
         at java.io.PrintStream.toCharset(Unkown Source)
         at java.io.PrintStream.<init>(Unkown Source)
         at java.lang.System.newPrintStream(Unkown Source)
         at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(Unkown Source)

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
no workaround exists