[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Problem launching sample plugin

[terrych@xxxxxxxxxx (Terry Chan)]

Terry Chan wrote:

Never mind, we figured it out.  The spaces in my Platform home path was
not parsed correctly.  A space was replaced with a backslash.
Looks like a bug in the PDE.

> Hello,
> I am using the PDE to write the sample xyz plugin as documented in the R9
> PDE Guide.  AFter write the plugin.xml and the action class, I clicked on
> the running man icon, and the debug console spilled this error:

> Exception launching the Eclipse Platform UI:
> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException:
> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	at
>
org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.activateDefaultPlugins(InternalPlatform.java:100)
> 	at
>
org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.loaderStartup(InternalPlatform.java:530)
> 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
> 	at
>
org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.startup(InternalBootLoader.java:912)
> 	at
>
org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run(InternalBootLoader.java:803)

> In my Window-->Preferences --> plugin development, I have
> Platform home as D:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere Studio Application
> Developer
> Workspace Location as D:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere Studio Application
> Developer\workspace\com.example.xyz

> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> Regards
> Terry