Netbeans 6.8 – Interesting Editor Parsing Bug

Do you love the syntax highlighting, code completion and live error reporting too?

That’s why I like NetBeans so much. And in comparison to Eclipse is the work flow a lot better. While I worked at a Java project I got an weird error message (see picture below). I was confused for a while and tried to figure out what exactly the mistake was. Nothing of course, just using a given parameter.

So I added by copy & paste the line and commented the old one out. And it WORKED! I removed the commented line and could compile the source. I guess it’s a parsing bug by NetBeans, but I wasn’t able to reproduce it…

Very funny story =) I hope you don’t have the same trouble…

Greetz Mavi