CNFE thrown, no reasonable error message due to global type using type arguments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBRULES-3039 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-3039 Project: Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public (Everyone can see) Components: drools-compiler (expert) Affects Versions: 5.2.0.M2 Reporter: Wolfgang Laun Assignee: Mark Proctor Fix For: 5.2.0.CR1 # no imports here! global Set<String> nameSet; causes: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Unable to find class 'Set<String>' at org.drools.base.ClassTypeResolver.resolveType(ClassTypeResolver.java:215) at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.mergePackage(PackageBuilder.java:946) at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.newPackage(PackageBuilder.java:920) at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addPackage(PackageBuilder.java:631) at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addPackageFromDrl(PackageBuilder.java:310) at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addKnowledgeResource(PackageBuilder.java:486) at org.drools.builder.impl.KnowledgeBuilderImpl.add(KnowledgeBuilderImpl.java:28) kBuilder.getErrors() returns an irregular error message (no line number, etc.) GlobalError: nameSet Expected: no useless stack dump, proper error message. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira