gistfile1.txt

package com.mycompany.scratch;

public class NewClass2 {

    public static class BrokenClass {
        public static final BrokenClass instance = new BrokenClass();
        
        private BrokenClass() {
            throw new RuntimeException("Broken");
        }
    }
    
    

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        try{
        BrokenClass c = BrokenClass.instance;
        } catch (Error e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        BrokenClass c = BrokenClass.instance;
    }

}

The output is

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at com.mycompany.scratch.NewClass2.main(NewClass2.java:18)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Broken
at com.mycompany.scratch.NewClass2$BrokenClass.(NewClass2.java:10)
at com.mycompany.scratch.NewClass2$BrokenClass.(NewClass2.java:7)
... 1 more
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.mycompany.scratch.NewClass2$BrokenClass
at com.mycompany.scratch.NewClass2.main(NewClass2.java:22)