[news.eclipse.newcomer] JRE Difficulties

["Neil Petkus" <cimmerian76@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

As brand new user of Eclipse 3.0.2 I have been working through the tutorial 
exercises from JDG2E.  In the second exercise from the tutorial about quick 
fix I reach a point where I am supposed to run a .jpage on some example code 
that I fixed.  However, instead of a successful operation, the debugger 
kicks on.  Its main theme is that for several methods called "The .jar file 
rt.jar has no source attachment" (JRE 1.4.2_08) or alternatively, "The 
source attachment (which is set as src.zip in my J2SDK dir) does not contain 
the source for the file ****.class" (with J2SDK 1.4.2_08's included JRE). 
For either JRE's (I know they are essentially the same, or at least are 
supposed to be) the classpath key JRE_SRC is set "correctly" as far as I can 
tell.  I've also looked through the JRE directories on my file system, but 
at this point I really don't know what I'm looking for.

Is this a common problem with Sun's JDK and JREs?  I also tried 1.4.2_03 
JRE.