[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: eclipse help not working

["3rdshiftcoder" <go@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi pana-

i found the offending programs.  a person at sourceforge had me install 2 
jars in the ext
directory of the jre kind of recently.  once i removed those 2, help works 
fine.
your tip on using the error log file in eclipse is what enabled me to solve 
this.
i saw the offending file name in the error log and knew exactly at that 
moment
what was causing this.

thanks for the very kind help,
jim



"pana" <panajotis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> the problem is not on the help server.
> I had the same problem every now and then, but now I know why this 
> happens.
> One useful view is the "Error Log", open it and see the error.
> I bet that there is an exception like this:
> "org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger does not implement Log"
>
> This error appears because some of your plugins includes the 
> commons-logging.jar in its library jars and it shouldn't.
> There's a number of plugins that include it and it's a different version 
> of the one in your eclipse distribution. For some reason that I don't 
> know, the classloader is confused. And for some even more weird reason 
> this comes up when you access the help system.
>
> One plugin that I know of and does that is SQLExplorer.
> The solution is to find the problematic plugin and remove the 
> commons-logging.jar from its files.
> Just go through the plugin folder and look only for external plugins.
> Close Eclipse browse their directories remove the file.
>
> I hope this will help you.
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