Christian Thalinger wrote: > Yesterday I investigated the dacapo xalan problem. It's about > Class.newInstance. No, it's not. JikesRVM's Class.newInstance() is broken and ours is correct. Sun also lets exceptions (even checked ones) escape from Class.newInstace(). > The problem is around ResourceBundle.java:480, or better, at > Class.java:1136. As you can see, the class contructor throws > a NPE, but > ResourceBundle.tryBundle does only catch IllegalAccessException, > InstantiationException and ClassNotFoundException. The solution is probably for ResourceBundle.tryBundle() to catch more exceptions than just these three. Regards, Jeroen
