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[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Plugin is instantiated but bundle is null

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:17:33 +0000, Miles Daffin wrote:
> This one is driving me quite coo-coo. We have a plugin that function fine 
> in 3.2. A lot of our users have just moved up to 3.3 and keep running into 
> this NPE during initialization of java tooling:
> 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin$1.run(Plugin.java:353)
>    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin.getPluginPreferences(Plugin.java:356)
> 
> It seems like, under certain circumstances, the Plugin has been 
> instantiated but the start method has not been called, hence the plugin's 
> Bundle (bundle) is null. The call to bundleCopy.getSymbolicName() 
> (Plugin.java:353) therefore throws the NPE. 

Does your plug-in call super.start(context) in its own
start(BundleContext) implementation?

Regards,
Rem