Johannes Schneider created JASSIST-272: ------------------------------------------ Summary: Missing Cause on Exception in DefineClassHelper.SecuredPrivileged#defineClass Key: JASSIST-272 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JASSIST-272 Project: Javassist Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Johannes Schneider Assignee: Shigeru Chiba In javassist.util.proxy.DefineClassHelper.SecuredPrivileged#defineClass: 165 there is that code: ```` } catch (Throwable e) { if (e instanceof RuntimeException) throw (RuntimeException) e; if (e instanceof ClassFormatError) throw (ClassFormatError) e; throw new ClassFormatError(e.getMessage()); ```` I think the instantiated ClassFormatError should take "e" as argument. Shortly after: In javassist.util.proxy.DefineClassHelper#toClass throws a NPE because line 249 expectes the cause to be not null -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.5.0#75005)