org.osgi.service.application.ApplicationException: No application id has been found

Question

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2011-09-13 10:30:39.110
!MESSAGE Application error
!STACK 1
org.osgi.service.application.ApplicationException: No application id has been found.
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppContainer.startDefaultApp(EclipseAppContainer.java:262)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.MainApplicationLauncher.run(MainApplicationLauncher.java:29)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:369)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:620)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:575)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1408)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1384)

Answer 1

If you see this when trying to start OSGI console, add this parameter to the command line (just after 'java'):

-Declipse.ignoreApp=true

or this line into your 'config.ini' file:

eclipse.ignoreApp=true

Answer 2

Could be dependencies issue; Goto "Run->Run Configurations...", Select "Plug-ins" tab and click the "Add Reuired Plugin" button

Answer 3

I've had a similar problem. I found that starting with -clean solved it in my case:

# ./eclipse -clean

I am running 3.6.1 on Ubuntu Lucid 64-bit.

Answer 4

Its difficult to say with the description given, you would have to double check your dependencies, if you've added some recently try to check your dependencies definition on product, feature and separate plugin's xml. Check this website too.