If you're actually paying a significant cost generating stack traces for NPEs, there's a JVM option to deal with that (-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow). It still

If you're actually paying a significant cost generating stack traces for NPEs, there's a JVM option to deal with that (-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow). It still generates a stack trace the first time; if you're able to go search for that first one it shouldn't be a problem for debugging.