Stupid question -Null Pointer Exception

[akhtar24]

Hi,

          I know i am going to ask a very stupid question....Is

"Java Not Support the pointer So why Its throw the Null Pointer Exception ?"

Please reply me

[peterj]

An object in Java code is actually a reference to an object in the heap. If that reference has not been set, it is null. So the actual exception is a null reference excpetion. But the Java language was developed by people who had coded in C before, and C was the language used to write the JVM, so the misnomer of "null pointer excpetion" was used.

[akhtar24]

Thanx a lot peter for my stupid question....