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redeemedofgod

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2017-05-23

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[Solved] Eclipse-java "An error as occurred" at startup

Hello!

I just installed eclipse-java and, after starting up the program, I see the splash screen. A window pops up to ask me where I want my workspace folder to be located at, and after selecting the default value of /home/daniel/eclipse-workspace/ an error pops up that says, "An error has occurred see the log file at eclipse-workspace/.metadata/.log"

Here is the results of the log file:
https://paste.ee/p/7P7OL

I don't know what to make of this, so any help would be appreciated. I am using openJDK9 is there any other information that I am forgetting to share?

Thank you

Last edited by redeemedofgod (2017-09-29 07:40:45)

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Eclipse-java "An error as occurred" at startup

Maybe an issue with the modularization effort in openjdk9, can you reproduce the issue with openjdk8 ?

redeemedofgod

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2017-05-23

Posts: 14

Re: [Solved] Eclipse-java "An error as occurred" at startup

Huh, yes I switched to openjdk8 and it opened up just fine. Pardon my newb-ness, but would you happen to know exactly why this is? Modularization?

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Eclipse-java "An error as occurred" at startup

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/

The biggest new change in JDK9 are the ability to use modules, I'm not fully into the details myself yet, but it basically allows you to ship stripped down JRE's to make your program function with a minimal set of actually needed dependencies. In order to properly implement this a few internal APIs have been made unaccessable and some software that would be making use of these breaks with JDK9. You'll likely have to wait for the next major eclipse release at the least to see this resolved.

If you consider the thread as such solved, please don't forget to edit the title of your initial post and appending [SOLVED] or similar to the title.

Last edited by V1del (2017-09-29 07:40:01)

redeemedofgod

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2017-05-23

Posts: 14

Re: [Solved] Eclipse-java "An error as occurred" at startup

Ah, thanks! Yes I will mark as solved!

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Eclipse-java "An error as occurred" at startup

Thought this seems weird and on a quick googler you can also enable support in the current eclipse but you'd have to do some launcher scripts adjustments, see here  https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content … ort-oxygen