Unable to send Email with apache commons mail, javax.faces.event.AbortProcessingException - email

Question

Am using apache commons email 1.2 ,Primefaces 3.2, Tomcat 7.0 mojarra 2.0.2
Whenever i try to send an email i get an AbortProcessingException *Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Uncompilable source code - Erroneous sym type: ()void*
Any help will be greatly appreciated
Here is my code:
Email email = new SimpleEmail();
email.setHostName("smtp.googlemail.com");
email.setSmtpPort(465);
email.setAuthenticator(new DefaultAuthenticator("*****#gmail.com", "12345"));
email.setTLS(true);// i also tried setSSL()
email.setFrom("*****a#gmail.com");
email.setSubject("TestMail");
email.setMsg("This is a test mail ... :-)");
email.addTo("*****#yahoo.com");
email.send();
Here is the stack trace:
SEVERE: java.lang.RuntimeException: Uncompilable source code - Erroneous sym type: (<any>)void
javax.faces.event.AbortProcessingException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Uncompilable source code - Erroneous sym type: (<any>)void
at javax.faces.event.MethodExpressionActionListener.processAction(MethodExpressionActionListener.java:182)
at javax.faces.event.ActionEvent.processListener(ActionEvent.java:88)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.broadcast(UIComponentBase.java:772)
at javax.faces.component.UICommand.broadcast(UICommand.java:300)
at javax.faces.component.UIData.broadcast(UIData.java:912)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.broadcastEvents(UIViewRoot.java:775)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:1267)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.InvokeApplicationPhase.execute(InvokeApplicationPhase.java:82)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:118)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:312)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:304)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at com.fidela.util.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:39)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:224)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:185)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:151)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:929)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:405)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:269)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:515)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(AprEndpoint.java:1773)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:885)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:907)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Uncompilable source code - Erroneous sym type: (<any>)void
at com.fidela.beans.UserBean.forgotPassword(UserBean.java:267)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.el.parser.AstValue.invoke(AstValue.java:262)
at org.apache.el.MethodExpressionImpl.invoke(MethodExpressionImpl.java:278)
at javax.faces.event.MethodExpressionActionListener.processAction(MethodExpressionActionListener.java:153)
... 29 more

Answer 1

This is a bug in Netbeans. To solve it, either turn off the "compile on save" option in Netbeans, or upgrade it to latest 7.2, or throw it away and use Eclipse or IntelliJ.
See also:
"Uncompilable source code" RuntimeException in netbeans