Description Olivier Thomann 2005-09-27 12:08:39 EDT

When compiling code that needs to report error messages, the batch compiler
blows up with this error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
        at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.Compiler.handleInternalException(Compiler.java:399)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:348)
        at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main.performCompilation(Main.java:2728)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main.compile(Main.java:1166)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main.main(Main.java:1071)

This comes from the Messages class that doesn't support its field initialization
when loaded from the system class loader (this is the consequence of having the
compiler classes on the bootclasspath).

To reproduce, use the following command line:
java -Xbootclasspath/a:org.eclipse.jdt.core_3.1.0.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main  X.java

When X is:
public class X {
    ZORK f;
}