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I encoutered the attached NPE in DataNode.compare in my application which is based on netbeans platform
Created attachment 26388 [details] stacktrace.txt
no exact steps reproduce. comes very rarely;
using netbeans platform 4.0 with j2re 1.5
Ok, what code you have on line 446 and around? Reopen with that info, please.
sorry it was misspelled in previous comments. i am using netbeans platform 4.1
Created attachment 26422 [details] For ur convenience i attached DataNode.java
Aha, 4.0 vs. 4.1 explains a lot. I was looking at the wrong version and that is likelly the reason I could not believe the exception could happen.
openide/loaders/src/org/openide/loaders/DataNode.java,v <-- DataNode.java new revision: 1.23;