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Right click "Java Card Platform" and select "New Card" in the menu: Got pop up window says: Unexpected Exception A java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError exception has occurred. Please report this at http://www.netbeans.org/community/issues.html, including a copy of your messages.log file as an attachment. The messages.log file is located in your C:\Documents and Settings\user\.netbeans\6.8beta\var\log folder.
Please reproduce, copy the stack trace and paste into this bug and reopen. I have no way to know what the problem is without any diagnostic info.
Here is the stack trace: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.netbeans.validation.api.ui.ValidationGroup at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) at org.netbeans.ProxyClassLoader.loadClass(ProxyClassLoader.java:259) Caused: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.netbeans.validation.api.ui.ValidationGroup starting from ModuleCL@11a0d35[org.netbeans.modules.javacard.ri.platform] with possible defining loaders [ModuleCL@cfe049[org.netbeans.modules.swing.validation]] and declared parents [ModuleCL@13a34af[org.netbeans.modules.extexecution], ModuleCL@16d8196[org.netbeans.modules.spi.actions], org.netbeans.MainImpl$BootClassLoader@aeffdf, ModuleCL@18105e8[org.netbeans.modules.properties.based.dataobjects], ModuleCL@1b7c76[org.openide.explorer], ModuleCL@cfe049[org.netbeans.modules.swing.validation], ModuleCL@996cca[org.jdesktop.layout], ModuleCL@1283052[org.openide.windows], ModuleCL@19c7c21[org.netbeans.api.progress], ModuleCL@5a2eaa[org.netbeans.modules.java.platform], ...11 more] at org.netbeans.ProxyClassLoader.loadClass(ProxyClassLoader.java:261) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320) Caused: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/netbeans/validation/api/ui/ValidationGroup at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427) at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethod(Class.java:1935) at java.awt.Component.isCoalesceEventsOverriden(Component.java:5819) at java.awt.Component.access$300(Component.java:168) at java.awt.Component$3.run(Component.java:5773) at java.awt.Component$3.run(Component.java:5771) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.awt.Component.checkCoalescing(Component.java:5770) at java.awt.Component.<init>(Component.java:5739) at java.awt.Container.<init>(Container.java:239) at javax.swing.JComponent.<init>(JComponent.java:581) at javax.swing.JPanel.<init>(JPanel.java:65) at javax.swing.JPanel.<init>(JPanel.java:92) at javax.swing.JPanel.<init>(JPanel.java:100) at org.netbeans.modules.javacard.ri.platform.installer.NewDevicePanel.<init>(NewDevicePanel.java:66) at org.netbeans.modules.javacard.ri.platform.loader.AddHandler.showNewDeviceDialog(AddHandler.java:74) at org.netbeans.modules.javacard.spi.AddCardHandler$SingleHandlerAction.actionPerformed(AddCardHandler.java:227) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1995) at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2318) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:357) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(BasicMenuItemUI.java:1220) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(BasicMenuItemUI.java:1261) at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6134) at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3265) at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5899) at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2030) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4501) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2088) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4331) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4303) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3967) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3897) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2074) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2458) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4331) [catch] at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599) at org.netbeans.core.TimableEventQueue.dispatchEvent(TimableEventQueue.java:117) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:284) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
You are somehow missing the swing.validation module, or its JAR file. Not sure how you got NetBeans into this state, but the problem is broken local configuration. Suggest reinstalling all of the modules on a clean userdir - something got badly broken. If you had a *very* old userdir that had contained the 6.7 javacard modules, you might have had a stale copy of swing.validation from the update center, in the "extra" cluster, and it was being found instead of the more current one in the "ide" cluster.