Why Would new Date Cause an Exception

[Steve Dyke]

Has any one got an idea why the last line of code in my example would cause a NullPointerException?

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package com.FAIWebApp.docs;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.Format;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.sql.Connection;

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCellStyle;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFFont;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFHeader;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFPrintSetup;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFRichTextString;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFRow;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook;

import com.FAIWebApp.connections.FileIndexerConnection;

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public class ExportToExcelFAISBSSID {
	private String errorString;
	
	public ExportToExcelFAISBSSID(){
		
	}
	
	public void setExport(String fileName, String ls, String[][] itemlist, String reportTitle, String userid, Connection conn){
		
		Date date = new Date();

[Campbell Ritchie]

I can't see how Date date = new Date() could cause a NullPointerException. Are you sure it's occurring there? The Documentation doesn't say anything about Exceptions.

[Rob Spoor]

It's definitely not that line that's throwing the exception. Can you post the entire stack trace?

[Mike Simmons]

Or, if the stack trace really does appear to be pointing at that line, I think you need to double-check whether the class files being executed were really compiled from the same version of the code as what you're looking at. This can result in misleading error messages.