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Jabda

Reputation: 1792

GWT causes Eclipse to fail to launch on Windows XP

Clicking on eclipse causes the splash screen to show then the application is killed silently with no error message. The .log file has the following information ( summarized)

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 4 2012-11-09 11:33:45.323
!MESSAGE Class load Failure: 'com.google.gdt.eclipse.login.ui.LoginTrimContribution'

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2012-11-09 11:33:45.323
!MESSAGE Class load Failure: 'com.google.gdt.eclipse.login.ui.LoginTrimContribution'
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Plug-in "com.google.gdt.eclipse.login" was 

unable to instantiate class "com.google.gdt.eclipse.login.ui.LoginTrimContribution".

Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at com.google.gdt.eclipse.login.ui.LoginTrimContribution.<init>(LoginTrimContribution.java:129)
    ...
org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.osgi.RegistryStrategyOSGI.createExecutableExtension(RegistryStrategyOSGI.java:184)
    ... 51 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java:187)
    at com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.draft10.AccessProtectedResource.<init>(AccessProtectedResource.java:184)
    at com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.draft10.GoogleAccessProtectedResource.<init>(GoogleAccessProtectedResource.java:87)
    at com.google.gdt.eclipse.login.GoogleLogin.loadLogin(GoogleLogin.java:628)
    at com.google.gdt.eclipse.login.GoogleLogin.<clinit>(GoogleLogin.java:98)

and a bunch of other error messages revolving around com.google.gdt.eclipse.login

A google searched yielded nothing about eclipse.login. The package is not in the .metadata/.plugins directory and deleting other google packages or .properties did nothing.

Hoping someone encountered this before and has a work around. Nothing major changes to system or eclipse or Java before this error occurred other than I hadn't launched in a few weeks.

Eclipse EE Indigo

Upvotes: 2

Views: 869

Answers (1)

Jabda
Jabda

Reputation: 1792

in the Eclipse software plugin folder I found that the com.google.gdt.eclipse.login package file had a version number attached to the end of the file name something like 3.03_v1 etc. I renamed this to just com.google.gdt.eclipse.login.jar and eclipse launched.

I am not sure how the file name changed and why it suddenly stopped working but that solved the issue.

Upvotes: 7

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