I made several recreation attempts under two environments as documented below, based on these I do not believe this is a jikes bug, but rather a combination of JAX and blackdown's JVM (You failed to mention which version of Jikes you're running btw, so I used the current version.) recreation environment 1: Windows NT 4, sp6a, Jikes 1.11, IBM JDK n118p-19990918, JAX 6.1 unable to recreate any problem, no difference between javac and jikes, everything worked fine. recreation environment 2: RedHat Linux 5.2+, Jikes 1.11, Blackdown 117v1a, Native Threads, TYA 1.6, JAX 6.1 nothing seems to work. First using classes generated locally with javac: running JAX with TYA 1.6 resutls in "TYA: Resolve problem in opcode bb", disabled JIT for futher testing.... Albrecht, FYI: I copied you because this is the most current TYA I've seen, and my bookmarked ftp server (gonzalez.cyberious.ca) seems to have fallen off the net? The run with TYA active produced the following non-fatal output from JAX: starting verification WARNING: BB_ClassFileException in compressed archive com.ibm.bobby.e6: Method simpleTest.B() accesses a member of a non-public class java.lang.System.err finished verification B_jax.zip was still produced, and the contents functioned correctly; however, given the error message from TYA I'm discrediting these runs. JAX output without TYA: Fatal Error: NOTE: This error may occur if the VM used for generating class files is incompatible with the VM used for processing the application. java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: append (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuffer; in java.lang.StringBuffer while scanning body of method simpleTest.B.simpleTest.B() Terminating because of fatal errors java.lang.Exception: at com.ibm.jax.engine.q.b1(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.driver.dr.n(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.engine.v.n(JAX) at com.ibm.bobby.fp.d1(JAX) at com.ibm.bobby.ed.d1(JAX) at com.ibm.bobby.ft.d1(JAX) at com.ibm.bobby.ft.q6(JAX) at com.ibm.bobby.ft.q9(JAX) at com.ibm.bobby.fw.rs(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.engine.i.by(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.engine.j.a4(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.driver.batchdriver.dm.a4(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.driver.batchdriver.dm.main(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.Batch.main(JAX) exiting with -1 At this point I recompiled simpleTest/A.java with jikes 1.11 and the results were the same. Fatal Error: NOTE: This error may occur if the VM used for generating class files is incompatible with the VM used for processing the application. java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: append (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuffer; in java.lang.StringBuffer while scanning body of method simpleTest.B.simpleTest.B() Terminating because of fatal errors java.lang.Exception: at com.ibm.jax.engine.q.b1(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.driver.dr.n(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.engine.v.n(JAX) at com.ibm.bobby.fp.d1(JAX) at com.ibm.bobby.ed.d1(JAX) at com.ibm.bobby.ft.d1(JAX) at com.ibm.bobby.ft.q6(JAX) at com.ibm.bobby.ft.q9(JAX) at com.ibm.bobby.fw.rs(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.engine.i.by(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.engine.j.a4(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.driver.batchdriver.dm.a4(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.driver.batchdriver.dm.main(JAX) at com.ibm.jax.Batch.main(JAX) exiting with -1 Since there was no difference between the behaviour with jikes and javac generated classes I'll have to say this isn't a Jikes bug unless someone can point out specific bytecode we're generating that's causing these problems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]