Please don't top-post. Teran Jesus writes: > Hello Andrew, I am using the red hat enterprise 4, why when i use the > libgcj-3.2.2-5 version it works, do you have another solution? OK, my dates were wrong, sorry. We've had StringBuilder since May 2005, and it is in a couple of released versions. However, I don't know why this program works with libgcj 3.2.2. Maybe the program tries to "autodetect" which version of Java it's running on. Andrew.