I ran Eclipse with the following tracing options and saw error messages related to org.eclipse.jface.messages not being found.
org.eclipse.osgi/debug=true
org.eclipse.osgi/debug/loader=true
org.eclipse.osgi/debug/bundleTime=true
ModuleClassLoader[org.eclipse.jface_3.12.1.v20160923-1528].loadClass(java.util.ResourceBundle)
ModuleClassLoader[org.eclipse.jface_3.12.1.v20160923-1528].loadClass(org.eclipse.jface.messages)
BundleLoader[org.eclipse.jface_3.12.1.v20160923-1528].findClassInternal(org.eclipse.jface.messages)
BundleLoader[org.eclipse.jface_3.12.1.v20160923-1528].findLocalClass(org.eclipse.jface.messages)
ModuleClassLoader[org.eclipse.jface_3.12.1.v20160923-1528 - /usr/local/google/eclipse46_ronvered/testing/plugins/org.eclipse.jface_3.12.1.v20160923-1528.jar].findClassImpl(org.eclipse.jface.messages)
ModuleClassLoader[org.eclipse.jface_3.12.1.v20160923-1528].loadClass(org.eclipse.jface.messages) failed.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.jface.messages cannot be found by org.eclipse.jface_3.12.1.v20160923-1528
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:461)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:372)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:364)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.ModuleClassLoader.loadClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:161)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at java.util.ResourceBundle$Control.newBundle(ResourceBundle.java:2640)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.loadBundle(ResourceBundle.java:1501)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.findBundle(ResourceBundle.java:1465)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.findBundle(ResourceBundle.java:1419)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.findBundle(ResourceBundle.java:1419)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:1361)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:773)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.JFaceResources.<clinit>(JFaceResources.java:76)
at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.createShell(Window.java:499)
at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.create(Window.java:425)
at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.create(Dialog.java:1095)
at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:783)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.ChooseWorkspaceDialog.prompt(ChooseWorkspaceDialog.java:114)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.promptForWorkspace(IDEApplication.java:342)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.checkInstanceLocation(IDEApplication.java:261)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:128)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:134)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:104)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:388)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:243)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:673)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:610)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1519)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1492)
org.eclipse.jface.messages is not anywhere in the org.eclipse.jface bundle, which explains the error, but doesn't explain why JFaceResources tries to load it. Does anybody know what that load attempt is for?
