HTTPClient Example - Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: INSTANCE

Question

I am using HttpClient components from Apache for the following simple program and I see the below exception:

Exception in thread \"main\" java.lang.NoSuchFieldErr         


        

Answer 1

I had this problem too, i realized it was when we upgraded to java 1.8, i just downgraded to 1.7 and works as expected. Not sure why the version became an issue.