Why the NPE using static method of DatatypeConverter?

Question

I have stared at this short code too long, and cannot for the life of me see how it can throw a NullPointerException on line 6. Why the NPE?

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Answer 1

It seems as though there are bugs in JAXB within JDK7 right now, as evidenced by this issue on Camel:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-4893

which ultimately links to this issue https://github.com/javaee/jaxb-v2/issues/860 in the JAXB project on java.net.

I'm not entirely sure if you are running into this same thing or not, but perhaps try using JDK6 with the latest JAXB version there and see if the same NPE happens or not.