Why you should care about Null Pointer Exceptions

8% of all customer-delivered defects traced back to NULL

In a survey of issues reported in the Sun Java and Mozilla FireFox on-line bug databases, 8% of all issues contained the word "NullPointerException" or the word "NPE." In other words, errant NULL pointers were either directly responsible or indirectly involved in a huge number of cases.

NullSafe identifies all possible locations in your code where an NPE is possible. How wonderful would it be if you could reduce your defect count by 8% just by installing a tool?

...more coming later...

Hopefully the benefits of not having NullPointerExceptions are obvious!