I’ve been having a lot of problems with my favorite IDE lately. Somehow, IntelliJ IDEA keeps crashing, without any message box and without any discernable pattern. All I get is one of those hs\_log\_pid*.log files that I learned to love so much during my own adventures in the JVM.
I still don’t know what’s going on. I’m getting an EXCEPTION\_ACCESS\_VIOLATION in native code in JNIWrap.dll. No clue what that is. I’m running Java 1.5.0_03-b07, and experienced this with both IDEA builds 3386 and 3397. It’s a pretty big mess, since I changed both my machine, the Java VM, and the IDEA build at the same time. I rolled back to IDEA 3273, and… I’m almost scared to write it… it seems to be stable.
The most ironic part is that I can’t even submit a bug report. JetBrain’s defect tracking website returns a “NullPointerException”… ;)
Elspeth Simpson, a recent Rice Computer Science graduate and one of the major contributors to DrJava, found a picture of us at this year’s SIGCSE conference. I like the picture so much, I have to publish it here. Thanks, Elspeth!
[1]SIGCSE 2005: Elspeth, Dan, Corky and I
