Ludovic Champenois's Blog

Bugs, bugs, bugs...

Bonjour, comment Java? Bugs, bugs, I see dead bugs walking...Yes, new JSRs are created every month... Yes, every day, new products, patches, update releases, dot dot releases, hot fixes are shipping, and bugs as well.... Kazem, my friend (I create bugs, and he finds them), has a little secret. He is also a talented bug cartoonist. If you like the selection on this page, make sure you see them all from his hilarious blog http://blogs.sun.com/kazem

Do you remember your first bug? First Mozilla bug: 507 First Netbeans bug: 1401 First Eclipse bug: 1518 First Java bug: 1183103 First Java bug assigned to Gosling: 1184392 (According to the Sun bugtraq system in the Java category). The document used for this bug still exists under this link  Engineers. QE, RE, Doc writers: can you share your funniest bugs? Ludo

Comments

• I don't have the bugtraq number handy, but I reported one against Javasound where writing out an audio stream with and AudioFormat with little-endian set to true produced good output, but false produced white noise. The kicker ... the codec was mulaw, an 8-bit format!
  Well, I thought it was pretty funny at the time...

  Posted by: richunger on May 27, 2005 at 01:22 AM

• Bugs can be more than just implementation issues, but conceptual in nature. For instances, there are no Pointers in Java, but there is a NullPointerException that is thrown all the time. This confuses can newbie, and always a question I eventually get from a group of new Java programmers.

  Posted by: malcolmdavis on May 27, 2005 at 10:04 AM

• there are pointers in java, you just don't call them pointer and you are not able to get the pointer-value itself.
  So I think NullPointerException is totally perfect...

  Posted by: linuxhippy on May 28, 2005 at 02:48 AM

• Wow, oak.lang.NullPointerException! Instead of java.lang.NullPointerException.

  Posted by: mparaz on October 17, 2005 at 04:34 AM

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