[EmpirePhoenix]

Funny thing, some JVM's already do exactly this for many years:

Failed to write HTTP message: org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotWritableException: Could not write JSON: while trying to invoke the method de.hybris.platform.catalog.model.CatalogModel.getId() of a null object returned from de.hybris.platform.catalog.model.CatalogVersionModel.getCatalog();

[copperx]

It would be useful to know what JVM is that.

[michaelper22]

Probably SAP's, since Hybris is an SAP product.

[chopin]

SAP's definitely does this, I just checked.

In fact I relied on it so much that I thought every JVM does this.

[xxs]

this is a json serializer, =NOTHING= to do with compiled dererences.