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

[J Michael Dean <mdean77@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is how Apple has set up Java - I have been bitten by this in the past
when I have installed some jar into that folder and then forgotten about it.
But in the spirit of your employer's rules about administrator, etc., this
particular folder is yours since there is a similar folder in the main
system library for global purposes.


On 9/11/09 2:38 AM, in article h8d2ae$21f$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"konrad.hinsen@xxxxxxx" <konrad.hinsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.