On 02 Jul 2015, at 15:09, Hamda binte Ajmal Hamda.binte.ajmal@gmail.com wrote:

If the java project that is using ABCL is located on a network drive, Method Create isntance throws this exception:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.ClassCastException: org.armedbear.lisp.Nil cannot be cast to org.armedbear.lisp.Pathname at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadSystemFile(Load.java:329) at org.armedbear.lisp.Interpreter.initializeLisp(Interpreter.java:172) at org.armedbear.lisp.Interpreter.createInstance(Interpreter.java:72) .......

I believe this has something to do with the the path. (path \fs2\14233205\NetBeansProjects\HamdaBinteAjmal-interface- 1ed1d2022f90 ) Please note that both the abcl.jar and the java project are located on a network drive.

Anyway to resolve this?

UNC pathnames under Windows should work: we use them daily in production.

What are the values for LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION for you?

Could you please refactor this to a reproducible test case outside of your code?

Try to see if something like

(pathname “//fs2/14233205/path/to/some/file”)

fails and report the full stack trace (at least to the point that it resolves back into Lisp calls).