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Preferences -> External Tools -> Ant The runtime classpath preference for Ant is not being saved across workspace sessions. Preferences -> External Tools -> Ant View The Ant View preference dialog does not come up as it can't instantiate its class - Stack trace: !MESSAGE Plug-in "org.eclipse.ui.externaltools" was unable to instantiate class "org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.internal.ant.antview.preferences.PreferencePage". !STACK 0 java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.internal.ant.antview.core.ResourceMgr.getString(ResourceMgr.java:89) at org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.internal.ant.antview.preferences.PreferencePage.<init>(PreferencePage.java:35) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:306) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:259) at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.PluginDescriptor.createExecutableExtension(PluginDescriptor.java:136) at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.PluginDescriptor.createExecutableExtension(PluginDescriptor.java:165) at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.ConfigurationElement.createExecutableExtension(ConfigurationElement.java:102) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPlugin.createExtension(WorkbenchPlugin.java:109) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.WorkbenchPreferenceNode.createPage(WorkbenchPreferenceNode.java:43) at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog.showPage(PreferenceDialog.java:895) at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog$7.run(PreferenceDialog.java:422) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:65) at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog$6.widgetSelected(PreferenceDialog.java:414) at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.firePostSelectionEvent(OpenStrategy.java:192) at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.access$4(OpenStrategy.java:187) at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy$3.run(OpenStrategy.java:327) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:31) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:94) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:1669) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:1414) at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.runEventLoop(Window.java:561) at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:541) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.OpenPreferencesAction.run(OpenPreferencesAction.java:47) at org.eclipse.jface.action.Action.runWithEvent(Action.java:769) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:408) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:362) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$0(ActionContributionItem.java:353) at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$ActionListener.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:48) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:77) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:825) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:1692) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:1410) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1419) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.run(Workbench.java:1402) at org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run(InternalBootLoader.java:831) at org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader.run(BootLoader.java:462) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:247) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:703) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:539)
Forgot to mention: Build id: 200211051258
See bug 25759 for workaround and details of fix for NPE.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26061 ***