when I ran your code i got this ( the fix to this will be in the next snapshot shortly ) - By the way, I realise that this is/maybe just the first issue.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at net.openhft.chronicle.core.util.StringUtils.isEqual(StringUtils.java:67)
at net.openhft.chronicle.bytes.Bytes.isEqual(Bytes.java:415)
at net.openhft.chronicle.bytes.util.UTF8StringInterner.intern(UTF8StringInterner.java:48)
at net.openhft.chronicle.wire.BinaryWire$BinaryValueIn.text(BinaryWire.java:1404)
at net.openhft.chronicle.wire.ValueIn.text(ValueIn.java:48)
at WireTextBug$Bug.readMarshallable(WireTextBug.java:70)
at net.openhft.chronicle.wire.BinaryWire$BinaryValueIn.marshallable(BinaryWire.java:1964)
at net.openhft.chronicle.wire.BinaryWire$BinaryValueIn.object0(BinaryWire.java:2136)
at net.openhft.chronicle.wire.BinaryWire$BinaryValueIn.object(BinaryWire.java:2108)
at net.openhft.chronicle.wire.BinaryWire$BinaryValueIn.object(BinaryWire.java:2207)
at net.openhft.chronicle.wire.BinaryWire$BinaryValueIn.object0(BinaryWire.java:2158)
at net.openhft.chronicle.wire.BinaryWire$BinaryValueIn.object(BinaryWire.java:2108)
at net.openhft.chronicle.wire.ValueIn.object(ValueIn.java:256)
at WireTextBug.testText(WireTextBug.java:26)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:271)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:70)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)
at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:160)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:68)