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.