java.lang.RuntimeException: Uncompilable source code - what can cause this?

Question

This error is just bizarre, my code compiles fine, I can see there are no problems with it, yet this error has just popped up. I have tried re-starting NetBeans and there is

Answer 1

Recheck the package declarations in all your classes!

This behaviour has been observed in NetBeans, when the package declaration in one of the classes of the package refers to a non-existent or wrong package. NetBeans normally detects and highlights this error but has been known to fail and misleadingly report the package as free of errors when this is not the case.