[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Eclipse crashes at startup

[<konrad.hinsen@xxxxxxx>]

Konrad.hinsen.free.fr wrote on Fri, 11 September 2009 00:24
> So there seems to be something in my user account that prevents Eclipse from working, but I don't have the slightest idea of what that could be!


I found and removed the cause of the problem: I had a couple of jar files in ~/Library/Java/Extensions, which apparently are on the classpath of every Java application, including Eclipse. One of them, gnujaxp.jar, caused the errors I observed. Removing it solved the problem - except that I don't know where it came from, so I may have trouble with some other program that requires it.

Is there any way to make Eclipse run without the contents of ~/Library/Java/Extensions on its classpath? That would certainly be safer.

Konrad.