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NullPointerException causes and reasons Since Java is object oriented programming language, every thing is considered to be an object. and there is always a scope of an object to be null or "No value".  Since Java supports primitive data types, Java is not considered to be pure Java object oriented programming language.   Few Notable points about NullPointerException NullPointerExceptions is unchecked exception Please read post  Exception handling and java keywords before reading this article Usually if program tries to fetch the value from reference and finds nothing as value, then program throws NullPointerException 'Zero' is not null And empty String is not considered to be null It is not the subclass of RuntimeException class Demo code that throws NullPointerException  package com.allabtjava.blog; public class DemoNullPointerException { class BeanDemo { String name; Integer ID; public String getName() { return name; } public void s...

IDE: Integrated Development Environment Integrated development environment, in short IDE is a convenient environment to write, execute and  debug the code or programs on a single platform. IDEs support not only writing code smoothly but also provides a provision to write scripts, XML files, simple text files and build scripts like Ant, Maven are few among others. In short IDEs are development environments to execute complete development activities using one application. IDEs and Editors IDEs and Editors fulfills the same purpose. That is writing code. But IDEs are glued or closely works with respective programming language's compilers, runtime environments, profilers and other language specific tools to put developer in a comfortable zone.  Some of the features of IDE: Auto completion Syntax Highlighting Code debugger Profilers Multipage editors Auto completion: Auto completion feature suggests APIs [methods, classes and interfaces] and keywords etc as we start typing in the e...