Description Jonathan Camilleri 2011-04-10 14:18:50 EDT

Build Identifier:  M20110210-1200

When I run this code:

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.lang.*;

public class TestThree {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
		System.out.print ("What's your name?");
		String name = in.nextLine();
		//String firstName = in.next();

		System.out.print("How old are you?");
		int age = in.nextInt();

		System.out.println("Hello, " + name + ", next year you will be " + (age + 1) + " years old.");

		Console cons = System.console();

			System.out.println("Enter a password:");
			char[] charPasswd = cons.readPassword("[%s]", "Password :");


			String strPassword = null;
			StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
			builder.append(charPasswd);
			strPassword = builder.toString();

	System.out.println("Password keyed in: " + strPassword);

	}

}

I get this output:
What's your name?Jon C.
How old are you?31
Hello, Jon C., next year you will be 32 years old.Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
	at TestThree.main(TestThree.java:21)

Enter a password:

The code snippet works as expected when compiling through the command line (javac.exe)

Reproducible: Always