Description Csaba Horvath 2002-10-04 02:57:18 EDT

The following code throws a VerifyError when compiling in Eclipse 2.0.1 (JDK 
1.3.1_04, Windows 2000):

class Recipient
{
    private short statusCode = 0;

    public void setStatusCode(short statusCode)
    {
       this.statusCode = statusCode;
    }
}

public class JavaBug
{
    public final short RECIPIENT_ACTIVE = 1;

    public void reactivateAccount()
    {
        Recipient r = new Recipient();
        r.setStatusCode((short) this.RECIPIENT_ACTIVE);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
       JavaBug jb = new JavaBug();
       jb.reactivateAccount();
    }
}

It seems that casting primitive final fields to its own type causes this error. 
If you remove final before RECIPIENT_ACTIVE or change the cast line to
        r.setStatusCode((short) ((int) this.RECIPIENT_ACTIVE));
The error is not occured.